Fall 2005 @Concord Newsletter

In this issue...

Five Lessons: A Taste of the Future, Today
Interactive lessons allow students to learn more science and math, earlier and deeper.
Perspective: More Science for More Americans
Technology can enable needed changes in science education.
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
In Memoriam - James Kaput, Mathematics Educator
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