1. Cyberinfrastructure Development for the Western Consortium of Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico Funding provided by the National Science Foundation (EPS-0919123)

2. Task Overview

3. Collaboration Model UNLV LeadershipTeacher Participants Cyberlearning with S&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

4. 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.

5. Why Curriculum?

6. 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.

7. Why Climate Change? Why Science & Sustainability?

9. 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.

10. Nevada C4D Project Overview Climate Literacy Framework Climate Literacy Framework Science & Sustainability Science & Sustainability

11. Kent’s Work on the Big Ideas Meta PrincipleBig IdeaSub Idea Understanding Earth’s Climate SystemEarth Systems Science Remote Sensing Visualization GIS ModelingResolution; scaling Coupling of Environmental Models Earth as a closed loop system Cyberinfrastructure Perspectives on ClimateParadigms, World view, epistemology, authority Variables and factorsStocks and flows Adapting to the Outcomes of a Warming ClimateLifestyle changesGovernance, local policy adaptations Socio-economic ImpactsBusiness, supply/demand, culture Policy MakingMitigation, adaptation, resilience Land UseAllocation, Resource Mgmt. Socio-cultural ResponseWater banking, crop rotation, irrigation Leveraging a Warming ClimateDesign

12. Climate Literacy Framework

13. Electronic Resources http://climatechange.education.unlv.edu/ http://climatechange.education.unlv.edu/moodle Login & pwd: firstname.lastname (e.g., kent.crippen)

14. To-Do for the August Meeting Which 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? 1. 2. 3.

15. August 9-13, At a Glance TimeMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday 9:00amDaily Agenda, Planning, & Review 10:00amLarge Group Work Time 11:00amMorning PD Session NoonLunch 1:00pmLarge or Small Group Work Time 2:00pmAfternoon PD Session 3:00pmSmall Group Work Time