Curriculum Modules
Welcome to a unique module experience
Our standard SEE curriculum modules are written for science teachers to guide students through lessons. This Computational Modeling module is different. This has been written for students to move through online modeling activities at their own pace and based on their own interests.
Activities can be selected based on the level of difficulty or based on the computational tool you want to learn. All activities will result in building a computational model or models that help you explore today’s complex issues and questions. This will guide you to ultimately applying your skills to build and share a model of your choosing. These will also prepare high school and college students who are studying statistics, math, computer science, environmental science, physics, integrated science, biotechnology, or STEM courses to use systems and computational thinking combined with online tools that are used in both the workforce and in academia.
These activities cover topics such as feedback loops, behavior over time, data visualization, and differential gene expression with computational tools such as Loopy, Stella Online, Ocean Data View, NetLogo, R, Python, and more!
Please see https://www.gaininginsight.org for all materials or click the button below. This website also highlights the work of 40 high school students who participated in a workgroup during the summer of 2020. These students learned about computational modeling through these activities and then applied that learning to create new modeling activities and projects.