STEM – Page 6 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI)

Strong STEM Focus Continues Five I’s (Initiation, Invention, Investigation, Interpretation, Instruction) form the basis of all CRDG TSI professional development workshops, where teachers see modeled the instructional methods they will use with their students and the communication that occurs in…

Physics, Physiology & Technology

Strong STEM Focus Continues The Physics, Physiology & Technology (PP&T) program, developed at CRDG in partnership with the Universit y of Hawai‘i’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and College of Education, is an innovative curriculum for ninth and tenth grades…

Role of Gender in Language Used by Children and Parents Working on Mathematical Tasks

Strong STEM Focus Continues This National Science Foundation funded project that looks at gender-related differences in language and actions used by children and parents when working on mathematical tasks will develop recommendations for parents on how to talk about mathematics…

Invention Factory

Strong STEM Focus Continues The Invention Factory, funded by the National Science Foundation and implemented in eight public schools, allows students to move beyond theory in the fields of electronics, engineering, and technology as they use electrical and magnetic concepts…

Strong STEM Focus Continues

An urgent call for U.S. educators to improve, develop, support, fund, and require science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills and to provide STEM opportunities for the nation’s students has echoed across the country since 2005. In 2007, local legislation…

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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