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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

    River Systems Institute
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  • Texas State Aquarium, Corpus Christi

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

    Youth

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.

Water Science Video Lessons With Dr Rudy Rosen

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Aquatic Science Videos Now Available Aquatic Science Lessons with Dr. Rudy Rosen is 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 instruction or […]

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Aquatic Science Education Pathway Featured at International Summit

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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Water Technology Forum Report

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Historic water technology forum brings key leaders in water sector together H2O partner Meadows Center for Water and the Environment’s, Dr. Rudolph Rosen co-chaired the organizing committee for the Texas Water Technology Roadmap Forum. Quoting from the water technology forum report: By invitation only, the Forum brought key thought leaders from Texas’ water sectors together. […]

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How to Raise Money for Water Conservation and Environment

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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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Water Technology Roadmap

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H2O partner Meadows Center to sponsor Texas’ first water technology roadmap On February 25, 2015 the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment along with other partners will host a water sustainability-oriented forum bringing together principals of water-related companies, associations, university research centers and other Texas research institutes, and others interested in accelerating growth of […]

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Take Surveys to Help Plan Aquatic Research and Education at Texas State

Visitor experiences, research, and education opportunities are the focus of planning by the Meadows Center at Spring Lake (formerly Aquarena) at Texas State University. Take a survey and provide input.   Broaddus Planning has been asked by the Meadows Center to prepare a feasibility study for a study area around the Meadows Center that focuses […]

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Aquatic Science Textbook Now Available

The aquatic science textbook, Texas Aquatic Science, in hard copy is now ready for preorder at Amazon.com and the Texas A&M University Press. Copies are expected to ship in early December. This classroom resource provides clear, concise aquatic science information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle […]

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Aquatic Science Website and Teachers Guide Get National Award

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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H2O Partners Sponsor Weather, Water, Wildlife Conference

Water, Wildlife and Wide Open Spaces: A Texas Summit on Climate and the Environment is a conference to be held on November 20-21, 2014, in San Marcos, Texas.  The conference will focus on effects of water availability, drought, extreme weather events and conserving Texas rivers, landscapes, and coastal ecosystems. Information about the conference can be […]

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H2O Advances National Science Foundation STEM Education Proposal

Joint partnership proposes technology-enhanced education about water and sustainability Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History and Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) have proposed a new project on family education about water to the National Science Foundation. Titled Engaging Families in Immersive Learning Experiences with Virtual Environmental Systems, the project would […]

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SXSW Interactive Features H2O’s STEM Education Technology

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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Texas Aquatic Science to be Published by Texas A&M University Press

Peer-reviewed science textbook for middle and high school on aquatic ecosystems by author Rudolph Rosen, Ph.D. From molecules to ecosystems and headwaters to ocean, Texas Aquatic Science is a comprehensive textbook about life in the water and what people can do to create a sustainable water future.  Now this important textbook will soon be available […]

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STEM Career Advice for Students

STEM careers featured in Texas Aquatic Science for middle and high school students As part of the new aquatic science curriculum contained in Texas Aquatic Science and accompanying Teacher Guide, each chapter features a career opportunity. Quick to read, each describes an opportunity open to students interested in water-related science and environmental sustainability. While each […]

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Proposals Implement H2O Advances in STEM Water Education

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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Texas Aquatic Science Textbook on iTunes

iTunes University Features Aquatic Science Videos Videos by famed nature film producer Randall Maxwell accompany the new Texas Aquatic Science textbook and Teacher Guide. These videos are now available on iTunes University. Videos take the viewer through each chapter of Texas Aquatic Science. Visit the videos on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/texas-aquatic-science/id738433069?mt=10 Video list: Chapter 1. Water is […]

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    Partner Links

    • Center for Global Environmental Education
    • Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
    • Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
    • NSF/RCN-CE3SAR
    • Texas Parks and Wildlife
    • Texas State Aquarium
    • The Ewing Halsell Foundation
    • The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment
    • Welder Wildlife Foundation

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      Ph.D.
      , Fellow of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University and Director of the Texas A&M University Institute for Water Resources Science and Technology in San Antonio, with initial major funding from the Ewing Halsell Foundation, San Antonio.

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