Be one of ten San Diego teachers to use NASA data sets and GIS software to enhance your curriculum!
Workshop Dates: July 17th and 18th, 2008
Participate in a problem-solving approach to understand and predict how global climatic changes will influence our world! Learn to engage students by solving real-world problems using cutting-edge NASA technology and GIS software to estimate water availability for projected future climate and urbanization scenarios! Work with high school students in real time to implement your newly formulated lesson plans!
*$450 stipend for the two-day workshop
*Get free software worth thousands
*One-unit graduate college credit available
*Learn high tech skills
Thematic questions:
How does deforestation in the Amazon affect river flooding?
How does urbanization affect water availability?
Only 10 spots available! Call now! Applications are due June 20th, 2008, don't delay!!!
For more information, please contact Melani L. Wright at (619) 594-2954 or E-mail: mwright@projects.sdsu.edu
To view flyer and application: http://pci.sdsu.edu/nasa.html
Funding/grant information: This innovative workshop supported, in part, by a three-year grant from NASA’s New Investigator Program to Dr. R. Edward Beighley [Grant No. NNX06AF13G] is presented by the San Diego State University department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and Pre-College Institute Math/Science Center in partnership with the Sweetwater Union High School District GEAR UP Program.
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