Past Projects & Research

Embodied Physics built resources for science learning environments where Black and Latino students could develop identities as people who practice and are engaged in scientific inquiry.

The project studied learning gains and attitudinal changes among students. TERC’s evaluation worked with faculty to explore implementation, usability, and the potential for sustainability and spread.

Innovate to Mitigate challenged 8th–12th grade students to submit ideas that mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.

Extracting Salient Scenarios from Interaction Logs helped students understand the principles of complex systems by developing a new type of education technology to support their learning and participation in the multi-person immersive simulation.

This project explores how students engage with messy, authentic data in interdisciplinary ways and what influences their choices to participate at DataFest.

The Focus on Energy Summer Workshop empowers elementary teachers to incorporate foundational energy ideas accurately and effectively in their own curriculum.

Focus on Energy is an innovative approach for teaching and learning about energy in grades 4-5.

FRAME investigated strategies to enhance the mathematics in museum-based making and tinkering activities and laid the foundation for a full research study on broadening family participation in mathematics through making.

FUN brought together learning-game research teams from Finland and the USA to conduct cross-team studies looking for similarities and differences arising in different cultures and different gaming environments.

Strengthening the Cultural Relevance of the Head Start on Engineering Program for Spanish-Speaking Families