SPICE PROJECTS

SPICE promotes the broadening of participation in STEM and computing, especially among underrepresented student populations. To achieve this aim, the SPICE team collaborates with schools serving populations of culturally, economically, and linguistically diverse students. Our design process incorporates a fair and equitable design framework, helping to ensure that assessments, curriculum materials, and technology supports are relevant, fair, and helpful to these diverse student groups. Further, our curriculum materials will be freely available to teachers and school districts... A collaboration among SRI, Digital Promise, Vanderbilt University, and University of Virginia, SPICE offers upper elementary students the unique opportunity to engage in the authentic STEM practices that scientists and engineers use as part of their work. The project team developed the Water Runoff Challenge (WRC) - a multi-week curriculum unit for upper elementary students that integrates Earth science,..