Understandings of Consequence Teacher Resource Website

Overview
Background
Project Team
Papers

Curriculum Modules
Density
Ecosystems
Pressure
Simple Circuits

Related Links
Helpful Sites

Worm, Spiderweb, Galileo Thermometer, Dominoes, Leaf

The Understandings of Consequence Project aims to help students learn difficult science concepts by engaging them in how scientists think about the underlying causality.

Kids doing science experiment with straws

Students have limited knowledge of the nature of causality so they often distort information that they are learning to fit with a simpler causal model.

This website offers curriculum modules that address the patterns of causality within the particular topic to help students reach for new understandings.

	This work was supported by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.


*	We are looking for a small number of teachers, both local and at a distance, who are interested in testing a new website of teaching materials and approaches that we are developing for the Understandings of Consequence Project. If you might be interested in participating, please send an email to Amanda_Heffner-Wong@pz.harvard.edu for more information.