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Designing Hypertext Materials for Science Classrooms

December 5, 2005

Sadhana Puntambekar's CoMPASS (Concept Mapped Project - Based Activity Scaffolding System) is a hypertext system that uses graphical representations in the form of concept maps alongside text descriptions, to help students learn science. The maps are dynamic, zoom in and out in a fisheye view, and are constructed dynamically as a function of the strength of the relations between the concepts by retrieving the concepts from a database. CoMPASS also supports alternative views of concepts, which help students study science concepts and phenomena in depth by visiting them in multiple contexts. CoMPASS is used in conjunction with inquiry-based curriculum units in sixth and eighth grade science classes. For more information, click here.