Outreach » K-12 Education » Collaboration for Learning, Education, and Research (WaterCLEAR)
The popularity of WaterCAMPWS teacher training workshops resulted in the creation of a 10-month Teacher-Training and Research Experience for Teachers called WaterCLEAR (Collaboration for Learning, Education and Research). The program helps teachers advance the scientific literacy, research skills, and technological proficiency of their students, preparing them to excel in science- and engineering-related fields.
With the aid of a WaterCAMPWS mentors, WaterCLEAR participants create additional curriculum tools that apply WaterCAMPWS research to real world problems for high school science classes. In FY 2009/2010, 21 WaterCLEAR teachers attended face-to-face and on-line laboratories where they created more than 60 curriculum units in the form of Web Quests. For each Web Quest, an over-arching scientific question is established, a series of questions is created according to the new Bloom's Taxonomy, and a list of references is compiled. Though the use of Web Quests and related curriculum, emerging Center research is moved directly into pre-college classrooms.
