Project Grant 2509287
- This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to develop a suite of tools that elementary teachers can use to customize existing open-source, standards-aligned science curricula. The $749,227 project, awarded on September 15, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2029, will enable researchers and elementary teachers to co-design these customization tools to support students' use of their full communicative repertoires,...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of comprehensive district-level infrastructures that leverage students' diverse communicative practices to enhance elementary science learning. The $1,581,066 grant, awarded to the Trustees of Boston University, will partner the university with school districts to co-design, implement, and refine materials that foster the use of research-based practices...
- This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare science teachers to engage multilingual learners in scientific argumentation through mixed-reality simulations. The key goals are to identify essential elements in teacher-student interactions that help elicit student thinking to improve scientific argumentation among secondary multilingual learners, and to explore the preliminary effects, acceptability, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,128,652 to support a 3-year project, "Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using Smart Greenhouses", led by Trustees of Boston College. The project aims to engage teachers and students in transdisciplinary learning experiences by designing and building "smart greenhouses" that integrate engineering, computer science, and...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program provides $1,197,134 to the University of Massachusetts for a research-practice partnership studying the impacts of and impediments to diffusing an equity-centered computer science curriculum across 32 elementary schools in the Springfield Public School District through 2025. The University will partner with Springfield Public Schools to employ a teacher-co-designed curriculum integrating computer science...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $449,555 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. to develop and test a professional learning model for high school science and ESOL teachers. The model aims to support multilingual learners' engagement in science and engineering practices through the Instructional Conversation pedagogy. Key products to be delivered include co-developed instructional materials,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $554,710 project grant to Trustees of Boston College under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct collaborative research on early number development from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2026. The research will involve over 3,000 children aged 2 to 5 years old across 28 U.S. states and 27 countries to investigate how toddlers and preschoolers perceive, reason about, and communicate numbers. Two foundational studies will examine number perception...
- 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...
- This $293,356 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project aims to understand the supports teachers need to adapt computationally-rich, Next Generation Science Standards-aligned curricular materials for their specific classroom and community contexts. Through this...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program provides $721,534 to the University of Maryland, College Park from September 2022 through August 2025 to develop curricular modules and teacher training materials focused on integrating computer science into linguistically inclusive, transdisciplinary STEM instruction at the elementary school level. Specifically, the award supports a research-practice partnership team in modifying existing lesson plans to include...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,270,503.00 to the Trustees of Boston College to develop a suite of tools that will enable elementary teachers to customize existing open-source, standards-aligned science curricula. The goal is to better support students with a range of communicative strengths, including multilingualism, in developing and using their full communicative repertoires while engaging in scientific sensemaking. The project team will partner with elementary educators to co-develop these curricular customization tools, which will serve as the basis for professional learning modules on how to support learners in utilizing their full communicative abilities for scientific reasoning and explanation. Subsequent research will explore the impact of these professional learning experiences on participating teachers' beliefs, preparedness, instructional practice, and curricular customizations. The resulting empirically-based professional learning modules and customization tools will then be disseminated widely to achieve national impacts in supporting elementary students' scientific sensemaking.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $1.3m | 9/5/25 |