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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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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First ever STEM Corps class held for students in the nation’s largest Job Corps training center Twenty Job Corps students from the nation’s largest Job Core training center, the Gary Job Corps in San Marcos, Texas, became the first ever STEM Corps class on October 23, 2012. The students traveled to the campus of Texas State University and the Meadows Center for Water […]
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The Texas Pioneer Foundation has provided a generous grant to The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment for educational improvements to Discovery Hall exhibits at Aquarena Center. Now part of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Aquarena Center’s Discovery Hall is playing an ever increasing role in providing innovative technology-enhanced education about […]
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New Teaching with the Stars teacher training unit on STEM marine science education. CLICK ON PHOTO FOR VIDEO High school students are featured in a new Teaching with the Stars teacher education unit filmed in Corpus Christi, Texas. Students take a field trip to Goose Island State Park in Aransas Bay to learn about oysters and […]
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New videos are being produced featuring the aquatic resources and researchers of Spring Lake, at the headwaters of the San Marcos River. Educational videos will be among new features to be displayed on multi-media screens and on educational touch screens in Discovery Hall at the Texas Rivers Center on the campus of Texas State University. […]
Ewing Halsell Foundation, Meadows Center, Rudolph Rosen, STEM, Video, Water EducationStudent experiential education outdoors inTexas’ watersheds can be enhanced by targeted use of mobile devices such as smartphones and pads. Students can access information to augment their outdoors experience or use the devices to store information about the outdoors experience that can be used later in classroom or after-school learning, thus extending the outdoors experience. […]
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Fulfillment Report to Ewing Halsell Foundation was Recently Issued by H2O Project Partners In May 2010 the Ewing Halsell Foundation granted funds to the Harte Research Institute and River Systems Institute to devise a novel experiential, technology enhanced education program focused on water and watersheds, from the headwaters to the ocean. A project report and […]
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H2O cooperator Richard Boehm, Ph.D., Director of the Grosvenor Center, often talks of the educational value of video and other instruction focused on teaching teachers. One of the best ways to use video in instruction, according to Dr. Boehm, is to have superstar teachers appearing in the videos, along with real classes conducting real activities. […]
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Headwaters to Ocean partner River Systems Institute (RSI) is currently reviewing plans developed by Lake | Flato for a new visitors and discovery center. Lake | Flato is a national leader in the master planning and design of visitor centers with over a dozen projects completed at locations throughout the country. The design process starts […]
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