| Brian Gravel |
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Lecturer and Director of Elementary Education
Brian grew up in Manchester, ME and went to Tufts for a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, graduating in 2001. After undergrad, he stayed on as an NSF GK-12 Fellow which allowed him to get a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering while teaching 5th and 9th grade. The experience of trying to get engineering into K-12 classrooms lead him to pursue this work as the program manager for the TENS GK-12 program at the Tufts CEEO from 2003 to 2006. In September 2006, he matriculated as a Ph.D. student in Science Education in the MSTE program that the Education Department offers. Brian loves being in the outdoors, especially in Maine, and he loves to eat and drink. He is currently part owner of a non-profit brewery called Thunder Boomer (they're a non-profit in the truest sense of the word, they don't bring in a dime!), and he loves to cook. Research Interests & CEEO Responsibilities Brian
began working on the SAM Animation project in 2004 when he was a staff member at
the CEEO. During that year, he met Bill Church and their partnership
developed rapidly. Together with Chris Rogers, they secured NSF funding to develop the
stop-motion animation concept in 2005, and this work comprises the bulk of
Brian's CEEO work and dissertation research. The software, SAM Animation,
can be found at the project website: www.samanimation.com, and is free for anyone to use. Qualifying Papers Gravel, B.
(2008). Science as multiple representations: Integrated perspectives on
the role of learning and appropriating representations in constructing
science understanding. Unpublished Qualifying Paper, Tufts University. PDF Gravel, B. (2009). Making "unseens" visible: Multiple representations of students' understandings of air and a particle model. Unpublished Qualifying Paper, Tufts University. PDF Publications Gravel, B.E., & Brizuela, B.M. (2009, April). Children's multiple representations of air. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. PDF Church,
W., Gravel, B., & Rogers, C. (2007). Teaching parabolic motion with
stop-action movies. International Journal of Engineering Education,
23(5), 861-867. PDF
Gravel, B.E., Finkelstein, N., Lecusay, R., & Mayhew,
L. (2009, February). SAM Animation: Student-Generated Stop-Action Movies as
Physics Education. Software presented at the American Association of Physics
Teachers Winter Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Lecusay, R., Gravel, B.E., Finkelstein, N., & Mayhew,
L. (2009, February). Videoconferencing as a tool for after school physics education.
Paper presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting,
Chicago, IL.
Goldstein, G., & Gravel, B.E. (2009, February).
Guidelines for talking to children about science. Paper presented at the
American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Gravel, B.E. (2008, May). Children's multiple
representations of ideas in science. Paper presented at the Graduate Student
Research in Engineering & Technology Education: National Center for Engineering
and Technology Education (NCETE), Minneapolis, MN.
Bers, M., Rogers, C., Beals, L., Portsmore, M., Staszowski,
K., Cejka, E., Carberry, A., Gravel, B., Hynes, M., Anderson, J., &
Barnett, M. (2006, June). Early Childhood Robotics for Learning. Poster session
presented at the International Conference on the Learning Sciences,
Bloomington, IN.
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