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STEM Education is Key to Understanding Connections Between People, Watersheds and Texas’ Economy

Project Sponsors

  • Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University -- Corpus Christi

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    Harte Research Institute
  • The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University

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    River Systems Institute
  • Texas State Aquarium, Corpus Christi

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    Texas State Aquarium
  • Ewing Halsell Foundation, San Antonio -- H2O Project Funder

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  • Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University -- Corpus Christi

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  • The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University

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  • Texas State Aquarium, Corpus Christi

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  • Ewing Halsell Foundation, San Antonio -- H2O Project Funder

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Project Background

Ensuring adequate supplies of clean water for Texas’ economic growth, agriculture, and environment will be the defining natural resource issue of the 21st Century. Nowhere is this challenge more acute than South and Central Texas. But the public lacks understanding of watersheds and the interconnections between people who live in a watershed, their water usage and the health of headwater springs, streams, rivers, bays, estuaries and the ocean. Well-informed citizens are needed to assure that future decisions affecting water use and watersheds are sound and sustain Texans and the Texas economy. H2O will help meet this challenge in an unprecedented effort to engage young Texans in a learning process that will prepare them to be informed and constructive participants in future decisions as citizens, voters, and water users.

H2O is funded by the Ewing Halsell Foundation, San Antonio.

H2O — A Solution to a Building Education Crisis

H2O is an inquiry-based STEM environmental educational experience that uses advanced digital interactive learning opportunities designed around the theme of “Headwaters to Ocean” as well as hands-on outdoor education opportunities designed to complement and leverage existing programs.

Features include innovative curricula, materials, and delivery methods that will use emerging web-based and mobile technologies coupled with time-tested hands-on in-the-watershed experiences for participants in a networked array of schools and education organizations.

STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Project Initiatives

Critical Thinking Skills

Develop programs that foster sound thinking and use new technologies to maintain the attention of today’s students and engage enough people of appropriate ages to ensure Texas’ citizens will make informed choices.

Building Partnerships

Build upon, link and network successful and progressive educational programs, schools, projects and organizations that can lend to watershed education throughout the project area.

Hands-on Experience

Create outdoor opportunities that further watershed education and add value to existing programs through hands-on field experiences and application of new mobile technologies to aid learning.

Discovery Centers

Develop and fund technology-based watershed discovery centers that will house advanced educational facilities to uniquely demonstrate the linkages between people and the watershed, from headwater to ocean.

Aquatic Sciences Featured at Confluence

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Teachers and high school students will get a chance to learn about Texas Aquatic Sciences at the San Antonio Water System’s 2016 Confluence. To be held February 9th in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Confluence will bring together over 800 science students from throughout San Antonio who will have a chance to learn about […]

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Texas Aquatic Science Certified Field Site Named

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Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University is the first informal education center to be named a Texas Aquatic Science Certified Field Site. SAN MARCOS, TEXAS – January 8, 2016 – Texas Aquatic Science Certified Field Site locations receive certification from Texas Parks and Wildlife. With the support of the Informal […]

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Water Institute Approved by Texas A&M

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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on November 12th approved the Institute for Water Resources Science and Technology, a new water institute for research and education in Texas. Located at Texas A&M University in San Antonio, the new water institute will seek to bring together scientists, planning and management experts, and policy analysts […]

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Aquatic Science Education Research

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Erin Scanlon Leads Survey of Teachers’ use of Aquatic Science Curriculum. Nearly 200 science teachers participated in eight workshops held throughout Texas in advance of becoming part of a research study on aquatic science education funded by the Ewing Halsell Foundation and Texas Parks and Wildlife.  The study is being conducted by researchers working through […]

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Aquatic Science Book 2nd Printing Now Available

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After release in late December 2014 the aquatic science textbook, Texas Aquatic Science, sold out within several months. The 2nd printing of the aquatic science book is now available for purchase at Amazon.com and the Texas A&M University Press. This classroom and adult education resource provides clear, concise aquatic science information in an understandable and […]

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Aquatic Science Video Website Now Online

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Water and Aquatic Science Video Lessons Featured on New Website Aquatic Science Videos website features an on-line video curriculum arranged into 13 lessons in YouTube Playlists. Each lesson covers a major subject area and is broken down into short sub-topic video presentations. These short videos covering important aquatic science topics can be used in teaching […]

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Houston Teachers Embrace Texas Aquatic Science Curriculum

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Houston Aquatic Science Educators Convene at Parks and Wildlife Regional Headquarters September 26, 2015 — A Houston workshop was held at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s (TPWD) Region IV Headquarters Conference Center in September.  Teachers were introduced to the Texas Aquatic Science Curriculum and instruction opportunities. Susan Hankins of the Meadows Center for Water […]

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Aquatic Science Education in San Antonio Gets a Boost

Aquatic Science Workshop Attracts Educators to Texas A&M University San Antonio August 29, 2015 — Educators from throughout the San Antonio area met at the new Texas A&M Campus in South San Antonio for a workshop introducing the Texas Aquatic Science Curriculum and new STEM education research study. Attendees included traditional classroom teachers, STEM-themed school […]

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Local Context for STEM Education Works

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Texas Aquatic Science is a curriculum with a local context for STEM studies about water. The Texas Aquatic Science textbook, teachers guide, website, videos, and all-out curriculum has become a phenomenal success thanks to the efforts of many. The textbook is already in its second printing and a new research study funded by the Ewing […]

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Aquatic Science STEM Subject of Workshop at Dallas Arboretum

STEM teaching workshop features aquatic science at Dallas Arboretum. The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden was the location of a mid-August workshop on teaching the new Aquatic Science curriculum for Texas. Workshop participants were largely educators who work for the Children’s Program at the Arboretum.  These individuals have a multitude of education backgrounds – covering […]

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Aquatic Science Workshop at Northwood University Dallas-Fort Worth

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Aquatic science teaching was the subject for Dallas – Ft. Worth area STEM instructors. Coming from a variety of backgrounds, participants at the August 22nd workshop included high school aquatic science teachers, high school environmental science teachers, middle school biology teachers and elementary teachers.  There were also people in attendance from informal education sites and […]

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Aquatic Science Instructors Meet at Birdville ISD for Workshop

Aquatic Science workshop a success for Dallas-Fort Worth science teachers. Aquatic science was the STEM theme for teachers at Birdville ISD on August 20th.  Covering how to use Texas Aquatic Science to meet Texas’ science education standards, former school principal and director of Texas Parks and Wildlife’s aquatic education program, Johnnie Smith led educators through […]

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Aquatic Science East Texas Workshop Success

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Educators from throughout East Texas meet at Collins Academy in Jefferson to learn about new aquatic science curriculum for Texas STEM studies. Learning about the aquatic science curriculum and accompanying materials, exercises such as ground permeability to water and impact on groundwater/aquifer supplies “really sunk in” for the educators, according to instructor Susan Hankins, from […]

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Aquatic Science Educator Workshops Scheduled

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Water and Aquatic Science Teacher Training Underway in Texas Texas middle and high school teachers can attend a training workshop and participate in curriculum development research this summer using the new Texas Aquatic Science curriculum through a project funded by a generous grant from the Ewing Halsell Foundation, San Antonio, and support from the Texas […]

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Aquatic Science Curriculum Research to Improve STEM Water Education

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Texas Aquatic Science by H2O – Headwaters to Ocean – receives new research grant from Ewing Halsell Foundation Project work funded by a generous grant by the Ewing Halsell Foundation to the Meadow Center for Water and the Environment (Meadows Center) will enhance experiential learning about water. This will take place through expanded and improved […]

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    • Center for Global Environmental Education
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    • Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
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