Technology Summit Looks at Influence of Tech on Outdoor Education On April 7, 2015 the Technology and Nature Summit took a first-ever look at the way technology has influenced children’s interaction with the natural environment in an education setting. The conference agenda can be downloaded here. Tech In (and Outside) the Classroom: An Aquatic Science […]
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Complete Guide to Fundraising – Money for the Cause There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, readers learn how to raise money for water conservation and the environment […]
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Texas Aquatic Science receives award for Education and Outreach from the national Association for Conservation Information. At it’s 2014 annual conference held in Nebraska City, the Association for Conservation Information honored the authors and partners of Texas Aquatic Science. The award was directed at the Texas Aquatic Science Website and the Teachers Guide. The award […]
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SXSW Interactives’ Sixth Street Showcase hosted by the University of Texas System featured H2O’s interactive STEM education technology for enhancing student learning about water and the environment. The Showcase was held to give a sneak peek to cutting-edge technologies that students and faculty members at the state’s higher education institutions are developing. Participating universities included […]
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Funding sought to improve learning about water using new education tools In May 2010 the Ewing Halsell Foundation granted funds to the Harte Research Institute (HRI) and the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment (Meadows Center) to devise novel experiential, technology-enhanced ways to improve water education for students and teachers, from Texas’ headwaters to […]
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H2O and Texas Parks and Wildlife Partnership Aquatic Education Guide for Middle and High School Students Spreads Across the Internet In just a few weeks after announcing availability of Texas Aquatic Science it has begun appearing across the web. Here are a few examples: iTunes University: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/texas-aquatic-science/id738433069?mt=10 Trinity Waters: http://trinitywaters.org/landowner-library/education/youth-conservation-education/ The Texas Tribune: http://www.texastribune.org/2013/09/10/new-curriculum-available-teaching-aquatic-science/ Lake […]
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Texas Aquatic Science is a comprehensive aquatic science curriculum, from molecules to ecosystems, and headwaters to ocean, for middle school and high school students. The curriculum consists of an online student textbook, by author Rudolph Rosen, Ph.D., specially produced videos, supplementary materials, and a teachers guide. The teacher guide was written by science curriculum […]
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Experiential education research at watershed locations and visits to science centers, such as to the San Marcos River (Aquarena) headwaters discovery center, provide exciting experiential learning opportunities for students. Soon to be published research results by H2O project co-director, Andrew Sansom, show experiential education at the headwaters works for students and teachers. Most students’ understanding […]
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New Teaching with the Stars teacher instructional unit on bays and estuaries, titled “Tidewaters” ready for use. The new Tidewaters unit was funded by H2O. Teaching with the Stars is designed to provide systematic professional development in geography to middle and high school teachers. It emphasizes pedagogical knowledge and skills as well as content knowledge […]
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Technology enhancements include state-of-the-art aquarium at Texas State University’s Meadows Center An Aquarena Center aquarist readies a new aquatic species exhibit in Discovery Hall. Destined to be a centerpiece of technology enhancements now underway at Aquarena Center, the new aquarium will be the first education exhibit to greet visitors as they enter the newly renovated […]
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CLICK ON PHOTO FOR VIDEO Teachers are provided curricula and teaching enhancements in a new “bays and estuaries” Teaching with the Stars teacher education unit filmed in Corpus Christi, Texas. In this preview, Dr. Larry McKinney, executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies describes the productivity of estuaries and the […]
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New Teaching with the Stars teacher training unit on STEM marine science education. CLICK ON PHOTO FOR VIDEO High school students are featured in a new Teaching with the Stars teacher education unit filmed in Corpus Christi, Texas. Students take a field trip to Goose Island State Park in Aransas Bay to learn about oysters and […]
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H2O partners, the Harte Research Institute and The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, have proposed a jointly funded project with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to produce aquatic science education guides for Texas’ students and STEM resource guides for teachers. The project would draft and produce aquatic science education guides covering Texas’ headwaters […]
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Experiential education and research interactive kiosks now in aquarium room — Part of Aquarena Technology Integration Test Center at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment. Through experimentation, evaluation, and research into educational value and cost options, workers supported by H2O are developing suitable cost-effective educational enhancement technology to full-scale in a new major […]
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