ETX in Action
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ETX Goes to the Arctic to Capture Media for a New iVFT
Chris Mead and Geoffrey Bruce from the ETX Center traveled to the Arctic earlier this month to start gathering assets for “Polar Explorer”. Polar Explorer is a virtual reality teaching tool being developed in collaboration with scientists at Northern Arizona University, the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona, and the National Snow and…
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Infiniscope Releases New Experience on Plate Tectonics
Infiniscope’s newest lesson release, “Fate of the Plates,” dives beneath the Earth’s crust to explore the mechanics of plate tectonics. The lesson features a simulation that allows students to model plate boundary interactions and observe the features formed at different plate boundaries. The NGSS-aligned lesson helps learners to answer the central question: How does convection…
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Prioritizing Equity in General Chemistry Courseware
The ETX Center, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, is creating general chemistry courseware to address equity gaps in first-year chemistry courses. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, the project aims to address inequitable outcomes that are in a large part a result of chemistry instruction that is not…