This project is a collaboration between Whittier Elementary School, Inter-American Magnet School, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.  It is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Research On Learning Environments (ROLE) program.  The grant is called "Designing Learning Environments for Teaching Scientific Argumentation and Mathematical Reasoning with Geographic Data."

Here are links to the grant abstract and the full proposal

People

Advisory Board

 Daniel Edelson, Northwestern University
Karen Fuson, Northwestern University
Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, University of Washington
Lena Licon Khisty, University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University

Collaborators

Whittier Elementary School

Kimberly Alamar, 5th-6th grade math-science-English teacher
Jose Trigueros, 5th-6th grade math-social studies-Spanish teacher
Claudia Greene, science coordinator
Albert Delgado, technology coordinator

Inter-American Magnet School

Carlos Rodriguez, 6th grade math-science teacher

Investigators

 Josh Radinsky, UIC College of Education
Susan Goldman, UIC Center for Learning, Instruction and Teacher Development
Jim Pellegrino, UIC Center for Learning, Instruction and Teacher Development

Project Staff

 Francis Allende
Matt Lauterbach
Ivan Liceaga
Sonia Oliva
Rita Sacay
Melissa Singer