Year In Review 2010 – Page 2 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)

CRDG continues to focus on P–20 learning progressions and associated curriculum development, professional development, evaluation, and implementation support in STEM. CRDG STEM programs are recognized nationally and internationally as being among the best inquirybased programs available.

Community Comes Together to Teach Teachers About Island Energy

CRDG’s Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI) program partnered with the Maui Economic Development Board to present their Island Energy inquiry workshop statewide this year. Piloted in 2009 on Maui, the workshops were geared toward science standards for grades 5–12 and…

New Curriculum Products in Development

Curriculum developers in the STEM fields were busy this year with two new textbook projects. Mathematics faculty are collaborating with the Center for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Education at Iowa State University to create a new algebra text…

Focusing on “Tough to Teach” Topics in Algebra

Creating resources focused on algebra I topics that teachers or students find challenging to teach or learn is the focus of the Developing Algebra Resources for Teaching (DART) project. The degree of interest in this area was highlighted when the…

Building Twenty-first Century Manufacturing Skills

The Makery project has as its primary goal to help students understand that they can make things. The project has its roots in the Invention Factory, a previous project where students learned about the internal workings of things by modifying…

CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Donald B. Young, Dean CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP Kathleen F. Berg, DirectorHelen O. Au, Assistant Director UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL Keoni Jeremiah, PrincipalTracy Teixeira, Dean of StudentsMiki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Three CRDG faculty members…

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

01. Overview: Helping students shift from arithmetic to algebra Many students experience learning difficulties in mathematics with the shift from arithmetic skills to algebraic ideas in middle and high school. Algebraic concepts and skills are the focus of instruction in…

CRDG Organization

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

UHM CRDG staff member published as second author in The MIT Press Journals

Congratulations to CRDG’s Dean Lodes as second author on a paper published with the VR team in Presence, The MIT Press Journals. This highlights the Hōkūle‘a as the focus of the VR work and links it to classroom usage. Read article: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing…

COE CRDG Staff Member Receives $44K Research Award from UH Sea Grant College Program

UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Assistant Specialist Joanna Philippoff was awarded $44K from the University of Hawai‛i Sea Grant College Program. As part of the two-year grant project, Philippoff and Co-Directors Heather Spalding of the Botany Department and Craig Nelson of…

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