The Texas Rivers Center’s Discovery Room for youth and adult water education must serve multiple purposes during Spring Lake peninsula’s restoration period and beyond. Visitor traffic in the Discovery Room has increased since Aquarena was closed and the Discovery Room’s facilities and displays must accommodate, educate, and entertain more visitors than ever before. The Discovery […]
Ewing Halsell Foundation, Experiential Education, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudy Rosen, STEM, TechnologyIntegration of Mobile Technology into K-12 Outdoors Experiential Education: Practical Application for H2O (Headwaters to Ocean) by Rudolph Rosen, Ph.D. Research Professor, Texas State University, River Systems Institute For many K-12 teachers, the computer has become a familiar tool. No longer seen as a mysterious “black box” of science and engineering wonder, computers are now […]
Ewing Halsell Foundation, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudolph Rosen, STEM, Technology
A key H2O project partner providing student access toTexas’ gulf bay and estuary educational opportunities is the Aquatic Education Program (AEP) at TAMU-CC’s Center for Coastal Studies. The AEP has been in existence for almost two decades and began as a partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Corpus Christi Ecological Field Office and […]
Ewing Halsell Foundation, Experiential Education, Harte Research Institute, Meadows Center, Rudy Rosen, STEM, Technology
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