Melvin LaPrade
Melvin W. LaPrade, Consultant Fab Foundation’s SCOPES-DF project, Melvin founded the National Urban Research Group (NURG) when he was a Ph.D. Candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban Studies and Planning. In the beginning, NURG conducted research and policy analysis on mortgage lending discrimination and the origins of the subprime financial crisis. The vision of NURG has extended to advance data-driven research through multiple perspectives, with particular concentration to the impact of public policy on community development, social justice and learning opportunity equity across formal and informal K-16 educational platforms.
Lesson Plans
Digital Fabrication Across the Curriculum (Phantom Mask Aligned to National Standards for Theatre Education) Using the Phantom of the Opera…
November 13, 2017
Lessons with Contributions
Students will create a neck piece based on symmetry patterns and colors seen in Black Panther as well as in…
February 17, 2021
Spirograph is the name given to a drawing tool that makes mathematical roulette curves known as hypotrochoids nbsp In this…
October 29, 2019
Students will create a neck piece based on symmetry patterns and colors seen in Black Panther as well as in…
December 7, 2018
Leonardo of Pisa (c 1170 c 1250) also known as Fibonacci is often considered the most talented mathematician of the…
November 9, 2018