Learning Intermolecular Forces

The Institute currently has funding from the National Science Foundation for developing instructional materials to help high school students understand forces at the molecular level, as part of the Next Generation Science Standards.

Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction

Working with the MSU Department of Mathematics, the Institute is engaged in several projects examining how we can support improved instructional outcomes in the introductory sequence beginning with Math 1825 and continuing through calculus.

Institute Director speaks about CREATE in online forum

Professor Joe Krajcik, the Director of the Institute for Collaborative Research in Education, Assessment, and Teaching Environments for the STEM fields, was recently featured in MSU's Faculty Conversations online forum, discussing the mission and work of the Institute.

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CREATEing the Future of STEM Education

May 8th in Spartan Club MSU Stadium

May 9th, 2012 in the Breslin Center

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Grant Funding through CREATE

The Institute offers seed grants and initial innovation grants to MSU faculty and post-docs in the STEM disciplines who would like to build a collaboration to innovate and investigate in mathematics and/or science education. 

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Mini-Conference: CREATEing the Future of STEM Education

May 8 - Spartan Club; May 9 - Breslin Center
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 5:30pm to Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 4:00pm

The CREATE for STEM Institute will hold an all-MSU mini-conference on May 8th and 9th. The theme of the conference, Creating the Future of STEM Education, will allow faculty, postdocs and graduate students opportunities to share and discuss their work to promote the teaching and learning of mathematics and science K through 16 through research. Our hope is that this conference will allow us to build stronger collaborations at MSU.

NOTE: The Tuesday night reception/dinner has been relocated to the Spartan Club at the MSU Stadium!

Using spatial knowledge as a framework for a learning progression in Astronomy

Room 133G, ground floor, Erickson Hall (College of Education
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 12:00pm

Much of astronomy at the elementary and middle school level involves  extensive use of spatial reasoning.  The variety of phenomena children are  asked to describe and explain in elementary and middle school are each the  result of various observational orientations, relative positions of  objects in the solar system, and motions on different time scales.

Making the Plane while we Fly it: Developing Learning Progressions and Transforming Teaching in Earth and Space Science

Room 133G, ground floor, Erickson Hall (College of Education
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:00pm

This talk focuses on the systemic work of transforming and studying Earth and Space Science teaching across middle grades. The National Science Foundation Funded Earth and Space Science Partnership focuses developing learning progression in Plate Tectonics and Astronomy in middle grades. The project seeks to transform Earth and Space Science teaching through professional development of practicing teachers focused on coherent content storyline, a claims/evidence/reasoning framework, and formative assessment.

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