Cyberinfrastructure Development for the Western Consortium of Idaho,

Nevada, and New Mexico

Funding provided by the National Science Foundation (EPS-0919123)

Task Overview

Collaboration Model

UNLV Leadership Teacher Participants

CyberlearningwithS&S

• Knowledge and experience teaching science to secondary students.• Interest and comfort with technology.•Commitment to HQ science teaching & learning• Willingness to experiment with cyberlearning.

• Resources• Support• Expertise• Commitment to supporting HQ science teaching & learning• Cyberlearning environment, R&D

Cyberlearning – The use of networked computing and communications technologies to support learning.

Cyberinfrastructure - the new research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over the Internet.

Why Curriculum?

New and emerging science related to the ecological and hydrological impact of climate change on the

unique environmental systems located in the states of Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico.

Why Climate Change?

Why Science & Sustainability?

Meta-themes

• Remote Sensing• Supercomputing• Visualization• Data & Data Management

Computational Science - the application of computer simulation and other forms of computation to problems in various scientific disciplines.

Nevada C4D Project Overview

Climate LiteracyFramework

Science&

Sustainability

Kent’s Work on the Big IdeasMeta Principle Big Idea Sub Idea

Understanding Earth’s Climate System Earth Systems Science

Remote Sensing

Visualization

GIS

Modeling Resolution; scaling

Coupling of Environmental Models

Earth as a closed loop system

Cyberinfrastructure

Perspectives on Climate Paradigms, World view, epistemology, authority

Variables and factors Stocks and flows

Adapting to the Outcomes of a Warming Climate Lifestyle changes Governance, local policy adaptations

Socio-economic Impacts Business, supply/demand, culture

Policy Making Mitigation, adaptation, resilience

Land Use Allocation, Resource Mgmt.

Socio-cultural Response Water banking, crop rotation, irrigation

Leveraging a Warming Climate Design

Climate Literacy Framework

Electronic Resources

• http://climatechange.education.unlv.edu/• http://climatechange.education.unlv.edu/moodle

Login & pwd: firstname.lastname(e.g., kent.crippen)

To-Do for the August MeetingWhich activities/units from S&S, Q1 (including an intro unit)

are we willing to take on for a 5-day development period?

• Review the resources and add your comments• Create a task table as a blog entry and record your ideas• Springs Preserve (Ellen)

Activities & Units from S&S, Q1

Proposed Change

Resources to be Used

C4D Themes Addressed

How does this proposed address Climate Change?

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August 9-13, At a Glance

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

9:00am Daily Agenda, Planning, & Review

10:00am Large Group Work Time

11:00am Morning PD Session

Noon Lunch

1:00pm Large or Small Group Work Time

2:00pm Afternoon PD Session

3:00pm Small Group Work Time