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Evolving Minds In The News!
BBC World Service Newshour ran a segment on our storybooks! Check out the segment below!
How the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses gets its BBC Radio 4 debut! Our director, Deborah Kelemen PhD, talks about our book with Richard Dawkins, Andrew Marr, Cathy O'Neil, and Alex Bellos on Start the Week podcast! Hear about us at 26:23.
The Evolving Minds Project was featured on BU Today. Check it out here!
Our curriculum was featured in the TERC video showcase -- check it out!
Who We Are
The Evolving Minds Project brings together the expertise of the developmental psychologists and learning scientists of the Child Cognition Lab at Boston University with the education scientists and curriculum design experts of the Technology Education Research Centers. Partnering with teachers, we provide exciting research-based curriculum materials for teachers and students. We expect to release the new fully piloted research-based Evolving Minds curriculum in 2023.
Deb is the Principal Investigator of the Child Cognition Lab. She has been studying the relationship between children's concepts and their reasoning for her entire career. Deb has recently applied her research on children's learning to improve science education.
Eve is the lab manager at the Child Cognition Lab. She is an undergraduate ('25) studying psychology and English. She plans to pursue a clinical PhD in the future.
I joined the CCL as a postdoc associate in 2023 after completing my Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences applied to Education at the Paris Brain Institute. My work is influenced by research in social psychology, cognitive psychology, and education. My primary focus is on beliefs related to intelligence. One facet of my research explores naive theories about intelligence and how these theories interact with naive biology theories. Another aspect of my work examines the practices of parents and teachers an
Dr. Gillian Puttick’s ecology research ranges from the feeding behavior of curlew sandpipers to the chemical “arms race” between insects and their foodplants. Seeing the pivotal importance of science education, she began to work in education research in 1991, bringing her enthusiasm for all manner of life forms to the classroom. Using an inquiry-based philosophy, she has brought fresh scientific discoveries to formal and informal settings through designing, developing and testing curriculum.
Sally came to TERC after 40 years’ experience teaching science and heading science departments in elementary, middle, and high schools. For many years she directed professional development institutes for science teachers and has been a speaker, workshop leader, and consultant in the field of science education throughout the country. She has extensive experience developing science curriculum for the elementary grades and professional development programs.
Sara Lacy is a Senior Scientist at TERC and is currently Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded project, Focus on Energy: Preparing Elementary Teachers to Meet the NGSS Challenge. Sara has worked at TERC since 2001, developing science curriculum for K-12 students (The Inquiry Project, Physics That Works) and material to boost the science and pedagogical content knowledge of in service K-8 teachers (The Fulcrum Institute, TERC/Lesley Masters in Science Education, Talk Science).
FUNDING
This research would not be possible without generous
funding from the National Science Foundation, under grants REC-0529599, DRL-1007984, DRL-1561401, DRL-2009176
Who We Are
The Evolving Minds Project brings together the expertise of learning scientists and educators from the Technology Education Research Centers to provide exciting research-based materials for teachers and students.