From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Capps receives National Science Foundation grant
Collaborative Research: How Deep Structural Modeling Supports Learning with Big Ideas in Biology
- PI: Daniel Capps, associate professor and graduate coordinator, mathematics and science education
- PI: Jonathan Shemwell, associate professor, secondary science education, University of Alabama
- Sponsor: National Science Foundation
- Amount: $549,688
This project addresses the pressing need to more effectively organize STEM teaching and learning around big ideas that run through science disciplines. Deep structure modeling—the innovation advanced in this project—is designed to meet the challenge of finding ways to teach big ideas effectively in the context of high school biology.