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Design of an online global learning community: international collaboration of grades 7-9 science students

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Kerlin, S., E. Goehring, W. Carlsen, J. Larsen, and C. Fisher. 2009. Pages 94–96 in A. Dimitracopoulou, C. O’Malley, D. Suthers, and P. Reimann (editors). CSCL 2009 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on computer supported collaborative learning, volume 2. International Society of the Learning Sciences, Rhodes, Greece.

Schuylkill Sojourn Gives Paddlers a Glimpse into the World Below Their Kayaks

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Sojourners will be joined by scientists from the Stroud Center, who will give presentations about the river environment at lunch and evening stops.

Watershed Citizenship Learning Community

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In collaboration with Cabrini College, Stroud Center educators began development of Watershed Ecology and Watershed Citizenship curricula for non-science majors.

The Rain Barrel Project

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Working with teachers at three Media, Pennsylvania, schools, Stroud Center educators demonstrated to hundreds of secondary school students practical solutions to reduce stormwater problems.

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Mapping a science inquiry unit

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Kerlin, S., S. McDonald, and G. Kelly. 2009. Journal of Classroom Interaction 43(2):4–13.

UpStream Newsletter, Fall 2008

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Each of us affects the quality of our drinking water — and there’s a lot we can do as individuals to protect it from harmful contaminants and pollutants.

Spanish Leaf Pack Workshop participants identifying stream insects.

Five Days + Seventeen People = A World of Promise

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The Stroud Center gained invaluable insights into ways to improve and adapt our popular Leaf Pack Kit for use in Spanish-speaking countries and the tropics.

Participants at a Spanish-language Leaf Pack Network workshop.

Stroud Center to Host Week-Long Spanish-Language Workshop

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Workshop participants from Central and South America will test drive the Spanish-language version of the Leaf Pack Experiment Stream Ecology Kit.

Leaf Pack Ambassadors

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Eighteen educators, conservation workers, and government officials from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Mexico and Texas were introduced to the Leaf Pack Experiment and Watershed Tour and agreed to present a similar workshop within six months of their return home.

Mountaintop to Tap Photography and Journal Exhibit

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The Mountaintop to Tap exhibit, which records the three-week trek of a diverse group of high school students who traced New York City’s drinking water supply from its headwaters in the Catskill Mountains to Central Park, was on display at the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development’s Erpf Gallery, the Queens Museum of Art and the Sidney Public Library.