Using Computational Thinking and Modeling to Build Water and Watershed Literacy

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Abstract

Read about the results of a partnership that generated a new high school curriculum and teacher professional development program to tackle the challenge of integrating hydrologic learning with computational thinking.

Keywords:

• High School
• Informal Education
• Computer Science
• Environmental Science
• Interdisciplinary
• Phenomena
• STEM
• Three-Dimensional Learning

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Notes on contributors

Bess Caplan

Bess Caplan ([email protected]) is the Education Program Leader for the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES), a project of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (Cary) in Baltimore, Maryland;

Beth Covitt

Beth Covitt is Head of Science Education Research & Evaluation at spectrUM Discovery Area at University of Montana;

Garrett Love

Garrett Love is Chair, Department of Engineering and Computer Science at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, North Carolina;

Alan R. Berkowitz

Alan R. Berkowitz is Head of Education at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York;

Kristin L. Gunckel

Kristin L. Gunckel is a professor of science education at University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona;

Chelsea McClure

Chelsea McClure is a Lecturer of Education at Towson University in Towson, Maryland;

John C. Moore

John Moore is a Professor in the Department of Ecosystem Ecology and Sustainability, and Director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.