Environmental Education and Environmental Engineering: An Example of How They Can Work Together

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Environmental Education and Environmental
Engineering An Example of How They Can Work
Together?

• Debbie Kinne, Tamra Ragland, Laura Koehl,
  Virginia Venturini

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Goals

• To produce scientists, engineers, and secondary
  science and mathematics educators who are
  experienced in developing and implementing
  authentic educational practices into current
  secondary science and mathematics curricula
• To design, develop, and implement hands-on
  activities and technology-driven inquiry-based
  projects, which relate to the students community
  issues, as vehicles to authentically teach SMET
  skills

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Partners

• College of Engineering
• Faculty
• Graduate students
• Undergraduate students
• College of Education
• Faculty
• Graduate students
• Three local school districts
• Seven schools

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Participating Schools

• Cincinnati Public Schools
• Hughes High School
• Shroder Paideia
• Western Hills University High School
• West Clermont Local Schools
• Amelia Math, Science, and Technology Academy
• Glen Este Science School
• Lakota Local Schools
• Liberty Junior High School

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Fellow Training Program

• Fall 2002 Instructional Planning
• Winter 2003 Field Practicum
• Spring 2003 Field Practicum II
• Summer 2003 Seminar How People Learn
• Fall 2003 Dreamweaver
• Winter/Spring 2004 Planning technology workshop
  for teachers

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Activities Developed and Implemented in 2003

• Viva Las Vegas Energy Project
• Rocket Cars
• Sound Activity
• Water Rockets
• Magnetic Fields
• Acids and Bases
• Photosynthesis through Satellite Eyes

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Activities Developed and Implemented in 2004

• Water quality
• Cranes
• Static electricity
• Structural engineering bridges, truss, beam
• Field trips to the University of Cincinnati
• Energy roller coasters

• Energy transfer
• Logic
• Career day
• Density
• Sustainable design
• Recycling and pollution
• Reaction time
• Center of an irregular shape

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Activities available

• All of the activities that have been developed
  through the project are available through our
  website
• www.eng.uc.edu/STEP

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Acknowledgements

• National Science Foundation
• Debbie Kinne and Bartley Richardson
• Partnering schools
• Hughes Center, Shroder Paideia, Western Hills
  University High School, Liberty Junior High
  School, Amelia Math, Science, Technology
  School, Glen Este Science School
• Graduate Fellows
• Matt Barber, Nick Harth, Tamra Johnson, Philip
  Draviam, Taik Kim, Fengfeng Zhou, Andy Spurgeon,
  Virginia Venturini
• Evaluation Fellow
• Laura Koehl
• Undergraduate Fellows
• Robert Stowers, Megan Perkey, Paul Oyen, Michelle
  Daniel, and Gabe Dagani