Project GUTS Marketplace is Now Open We have opened a new Marketplace where teachers, school districts, and other Project GUTS PD providers can purchase our printed CS in Science curriculum binders and StarLogo Nova block cards on demand. We are using Mimeo as the provider as we have found their print on demand service to be exemplary. Mimeo can work with districts and schools to set up invoicing via PO or can accept payment directly using a credit card.
Computer Modeling of Namibia's Mysterious Fairy Circles Two graduate students developed a computer model of how fairy circles form. In their model, the interaction of termites and vegetation caused the development of fairy circles and another smaller scale pattern between fairy circles that no one before had see. The two students went to the desert of Namibia to look for this secondary pattern and found it. While not "proof" of how the Namibian fairy circles were formed, the finding furthers our understanding of pattern development in nature in
Don't You Dare Try to Teach Science Without Building Models In this January article in Wired by Rhett Allain, the author states that science is about building models and thus science classes should be framed around building models. Do you agree? https://www.wired.com/2017/01/dont-dare-try-teach-science-without-building-models/