Interactive lessons from Concord Consortium Newsletter

Fall 2005 @Concord Newsletter

This issue of the Concord Consortium Newsletter features ready-to-use lessons that "allow students to learn more science and math, earlier and deeper." Also, there's a piece supporting "More Science for More Americans: Technology can enable needed changes in science education." And more:

"Improving Student Learning with Teacher Professional Development
Our professional development courses help teachers become highly qualified.

Monday’s Lesson: Investigating Sound
Record your voice with the Sound Grapher to see waves and frequencies.

Tuesday’s Lesson: What Can You Do with a Broken Calculator?
Students develop math skills and number sense with a “broken” calculator.

Wednesday’s Lesson: The Trickster Squirrel
The Qualitative Grapher makes time/distance graphs meaningful.

Thursday’s Lesson: Budgie Populations
Explore population genetics with the budgerigar bird.

Friday’s Lesson: Molecular Self-Assembly
The Molecular Workbench software models molecular self-assembly"