Education & Outreach

CI-WATER’s Education and Outreach team has engaged in a wide array of activities to enhance the public’s engagement with water and computer science, including developing learning resources for ongoing use such as Teaching Toolkits and curricula to bring water and computer science into formal and informal learning environments.

CI-WATER Education Resources

Model Earth

Model Earth is a set of interactive and other resources to help educators to bring water science into the classroom. Developed by the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center for the CI-WATER and iUTAH Projects. Teacher materials are also available.

CI-WATER Toolboxes

Complete with models, water sampling materials and more, the CI-WATER Teaching Toolbox is designed for Utah and Wyoming K-12 teachers, students and community groups to learn about water, modeling and the process of scientific inquiry.

Videos & Webinars

What is CI-WATER?

CI-WATER: What is a Model?

CI-WATER’s Nathan Swain: Legos and Hard Work

CI-WATER Webinar: BYU World Water Project

CI-WATER Webinar: Track 2 ADHYDRO Overview

Higher Education

• Hydroinformatics Course
• Virtual Poster Session

Resources and Tools

• STEM Career
  Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers have numerous benefits including employment rates that are higher than average, the ability to make a difference to your community and a wide variety of potential work environments.
  
  
• Curriculum & Student Interactives
  Water related lesson plans, activities, and resources for students.
  
  
• Aquapedia
  Water Education Foundation's online water encyclopedia. Vetted information from an objective source.
  
  
• CUAHSI - Universities Allied for Water Research
  Founded in 2001, the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) enables the water science community to advance understanding of the central role of water to life, Earth, and society. CUAHSI focuses on water from bedrock to atmosphere, from summit to sea and from the geologic past, through the present and into the future.
  
  
• National Water Center (NWC)
  The NWC collaboratively researches, develops and delivers state-of-the science, National hydrologic analyses, forecast information, data, decision-support services and guidance to support and inform essential emergency services and water management decisions.
  
  
• CI-WATER Faculty Lounge
  Teachers learn about the opportunities that CI-WATER resources offer educators with this archive of the faculty lounge webinar from project partner Utah Education Network (UEN) and Wymoing EPSCoR. Originally aired on May 8, 2014.

Community

• Water Related Broadcast Programs

Past Events and Programs

Summer Programs

• USU Summer Code Camp - July 10, 2014
• Summer Research Apprentice Program (SRAP) - June 9th - July 18th, 2014
• USU Summer Code Camp - July 11, 2013
• Professional Development Summer Institute for Teachers - June 24- 28, 2013

Symposia

• 2013 CI-WATER Symposium Proceedings
• 2013 CI-WATER Public Event with Dr. Miriah Meyer
• 2012 CI-WATER Symposium Proceedings
• 2012 CI-WATER Symposium Education Speaker Dr. Christopher Emdin

Presentations

• Enhance STEM Learning and Water Science Engagement -Team 4
  Presented by Laura Hunter at the AAAS External Review in November 2014

• Enhance STEM Learning and Water Science Engagement
  Presented by Laura Hunter at the All Hands Meeting on October 10, 2013 in Salt Lake City, UT.

• Using Interactive Video Conferencing for Multi-Institution, Team-Teaching
  Burian, S.J., Horsburgh, J.S., Rosenberg, D.E., Ames, D.P., Hunter, L.G., and Strong, C. (2013). “Using interactive video conferencing for multi-institution, team-teaching.” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Proceedings, 23-26 June, 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA.

• Enhance STEM Learning and Water Science Engagement - Team 4
  Presented by Laura Hunter at the CI-WATER Symposium on May 29, 2013
  
  

• Outreach and Education - Team 4
  Presented by Laura Hunter at the AAAS External Review on March 4, 2013

• CI‐WATER Hydroinformatcs Course Fall 2012
  Presented by Jeffery S. Horsburgh, David Rosenberg, Steve Burian, and Dan Ames at the AAAS External Review on March 4, 2013

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