Youth and Adult Water Science Education for the 21st Century by Rudolph Rosen, Ph.D. Educational exhibits designed for today’s visitors and students rely heavily on technology. Technology enhanced exhibits generate added excitement for visitors and can deliver large amounts of information in a small space, reducing space requirements and overhead costs. They also provide flexibility […]
Aquatic Education, Ewing Halsell Foundation, Meadows Center, Rudy Rosen, STEM, Technology
Selected teaching stars from schools in theCorpus Christiarea will be featured in new comprehensive teacher training videos and curricula onTexas’ bays and estuaries. Production of video and curricula will be through the highly-acclaimed “Teaching with the Stars” project of the Gilbert M. Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education, Texas State University, supported by the Ewing Halsell […]
Aquatic Education, Ewing Halsell Foundation, H2O, Meadows Center, Rudy Rosen, STEM, Video
H2O and the River Systems Institute recently submitted a proposal to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gulf of Mexico Program Office for a grant under EPA’s Gulf of Mexico Regional Partnerships Grants Program. The proposed $305,000 project will provide experiential bay, estuary and freshwater education activities and service learning opportunities for middle school […]
Aquatic Education, Ewing Halsell Foundation, H2O, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudy Rosen, STEM
Key features of H2O are the development of educational activities that foster critical thinking and use of advanced technologies to maintain the attention of today’s students. While one of the most exciting features of this approach is integration of technology into outdoor hands-on learning about watersheds, H2O also will employ an indoor learning component at […]
Aquatic Education, Ewing Halsell Foundation, H2O, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudy Rosen, STEM
A teacher workshop supported through H2O and the Texas Stream Team was held in July in Corpus Christi. During the training, Texas Stream Team instructed seventeen teachers in core water quality and bacteria monitoring. This took place at the Texas A&M Corpus Christi campus and was coordinated by the H2O Project. The majority of attendees […]
Aquatic Education, Ewing Halsell Foundation, H2O, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudy Rosen, STEM, Teaching
The Harte Research Institute and River Systems Institute recently submitted a proposal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Integrated Water Quality Program for a grant under USDA’s Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program. The USDA expects to issue a single grant, under the nationwide grant program. The proposed $2.5 million USDA project […]
Aquatic Education, Ewing Halsell Foundation, H2O, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudolph Rosen, STEM, water
Fulfillment Report to Ewing Halsell Foundation was Recently Issued by H2O Project Partners In May 2010 the Ewing Halsell Foundation granted funds to the Harte Research Institute and River Systems Institute to devise a novel experiential, technology enhanced education program focused on water and watersheds, from the headwaters to the ocean. A project report and […]
Aquatic Education, Aquatic Science, Environment, Ewing Halsell Foundation, H2O, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Outdoor Education, Rudolph Rosen, STEM, Teacher Training, Water Education, Water Technology
H2O cooperator Richard Boehm, Ph.D., Director of the Grosvenor Center, often talks of the educational value of video and other instruction focused on teaching teachers. One of the best ways to use video in instruction, according to Dr. Boehm, is to have superstar teachers appearing in the videos, along with real classes conducting real activities. […]
Aquatic Education, Rudy Rosen, STEM, Video, Water Education
The first teacher workshop to be supported through a new partnership between H2O and the Texas Stream Team will be held in July in Corpus Christi. This one day hands-on instruction to be held outside in the Oso Bay watershed will cover water quality sampling, outreach resources for students, and analysis of watershed information. Data […]
Aquatic Education, Ewing Halsell Foundation, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudolph Rosen, STEM