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 Develop 3-curriculum modules to be used in the summer science institute. Develop for delivery with Moodle using the 5-DIE framework. Use the resources identified by the leadership team. Attend 3-Saturday sessions for PD and collaborative work. Work as a team of two to develop one of the units. Collaboratively review, pilot, debug the work of other teams. Complete development and pilot testing of all materials by May 16, 2011.

3. Collaboration Model UNLV LeadershipTeacher Participants Cyberlearning 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?

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. Climate Literacy Framework

11. Module Themes TitleDescriptionTeamDate 1.Geologic Time - Temporal Scale Examine how energy environments govern the type of rock formation and rock features indicate environment. (Dropstones tie) Tracy Kris Tricia? 4/18 2.Earth - Spatial Scale Examine how the movement of continental plate can affect climate. (Insulation and albedo can affect changes in climate) Laura Stephanie 4/23 3.Regional - Spatial Scale Examine how small changes in environments can be recorded within the rock record (evaporatic rock systems). (Salt Flats) Cindy Nya 5/7 4.Local - Specific Site within- Spatial Scale Examine how small scale and large scale changes affect an environment. Examine how rate of change can be used to predict future environments.. (PJ Forrest) Kris CarrollJune

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

13. To-Do for the Next Meeting What will comprise the activity of your module? Review the resources and add your comments Create a task table as a blog entry and record your ideas 5-DIE Feature Activity (doing, asking about) Resources to be Used (use those posted) C4D Themes Addressed How does this address Climate Change? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.