Project Grant 2445736
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is for a collaborative research initiative to integrate spatial computing technologies into elementary environmental science instruction. The $426,924 project, awarded on September 15, 2025, aims to enhance an existing "Shared Waters" curriculum and foster elementary students' understanding of local watershed ecosystems in low-income communities in West Virginia and Delaware....
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance elementary school students' understanding of local watershed ecosystems and foster their interest in environmental STEM (E-STEM) careers. The $426,248 grant, awarded on September 15, 2025, supports a collaboration between West Virginia University Research Corporation and partners in West Virginia and Delaware to integrate spatial computing technologies, such as augmented...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to Villanova University under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM Education) program (CFDA 47.076) to enhance the augmented reality sandbox simulation tool and evaluate its effectiveness in supporting student learning outcomes. The grant period runs from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2025. Under the award, Villanova University will extend the AR sandbox's existing GPU-based water flow...
- This $348,706 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and implement a curricular program for middle-school students in community-based settings. The program will focus on building data visualization skills to help students become critical consumers and interpreters of data. The research goals are to provide empirical evidence of middle school students building data visualization practices through learning technologies and to...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,001,564 project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Nurture Nature Center. The grant period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to develop a new model for training middle school science teachers to instruct with complex scientific data visualizations and arts-based pedagogies. Three subawards totaling $1,001,564 were provided to the University of Colorado, Education Development Center, and J Sickler Consulting...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,293,270 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to develop new technological and pedagogical frameworks for integrating data modeling and agent-based modeling into middle school environmental science curricula. The project aims to create three technology-rich learning units that leverage the Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) and the Modeling...
- This $241,414 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop an augmented reality (AR) learning environment integrated with a large language model (LLM)-powered pedagogical agent to guide middle school students' modeling practice in science. The key objectives are to: 1) build AR simulations for modeling tasks, 2) develop an on-device LLM to assess diagrammatic models, and 3) investigate student modeling practice within the...
- The National Science Foundation awarded Washington State University a $3 million project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the "RIVERS, WATERSHEDS, COMMUNITIES" project from September 2021 through August 2026. The project aims to train an innovative cross-sector workforce for equitable, multi-scale decision-making towards human and ecosystem health. It will develop an interdisciplinary curriculum and provide hands-on learning experiences to graduate...
- This $1,988,720 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a collaborative research effort led by the University of Colorado at Boulder, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and Utah State University. The project aims to scale and expand the STEM Career Connections model across three rural school districts to increase middle and high school students' skills in technology and computing required for...
- This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a partnership development and planning project focused on advancing geospatial science representation in informal STEM education offerings in the Greater St. Louis region. The project aims to create a coalition of geospatial innovation organizations from public, private, and government sectors to identify gaps, enable collaboration, and share knowledge and resources. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $446,465 to the Stroud Water Research Center Inc. in Avondale, Pennsylvania to enhance an existing Shared Waters curriculum by integrating spatial computing technologies such as augmented reality, mixed reality, simulations, and computer modeling. The project aims to foster elementary school students' understanding of local watershed ecosystems in low-income communities in West Virginia and Delaware, addressing environmental challenges while sparking interest in environmental-STEM (E-STEM) careers. The research will investigate the impact of these spatial computing technologies on student learning outcomes, engagement, and interest in E-STEM careers. Key deliverables include an updated Shared Waters curriculum, professional development modules for teachers, and web-based dissemination of curriculum resources.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $446.5k | 9/3/25 |