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L:NCSA and Collaborators RiverWeb Project ---------------------------------------------
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L:1. Project description (one or two sentence description) 
L:Researchers and educators at NCSA, MVHS, OSC & UAH/ASPIRE are collaborating to prototype,
L:integrate and evaluate tools, methodologies and materials that 
L:a) support engaged learning about rivers and watersheds, 
L:b) integrate science and mathematics teaching and learning, and 
L:c) are linked to national and state standards. 
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L:2. PACI relevance of the project (how it relates to PACI goals/strategies) 
L:Laying a foundation to scale tools and science content emerging from EH-AT team to meet needs of
L:broader audiences for the GRID. 
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L:3. Potential audience or user base 
L:K-12 educators & students (grades 8-12); preservice educators and students; citizen scientists 
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L:4. Partnership links both internal (AT/ET/EOT) and external; can include 
L:potential "targets of opportunity" for partnership 
L:EOT: MVHS, OSC, UAH/ASPIRE; UIUC College of Education/Chip Bruce/Inquiry Project; potential
L:link to NPACI (ECCSE/Zavlesky/GIS); LIS partners; Illinois DNR/EcoWatch; Mississippi RiverWeb
L:Museum Consortium partners (NSF-funded project) 
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L:5. Diversity and universal access issues 
L:Prototype activities & materials designed to engage male & female students & educators from diverse
L:geographic, economic & cultural backgrounds. Tools to accommodate wide range of workstation and
L:bandwidth capabilities. Three co-PI's one of whom is female (Susan Ragan, MVHS). 
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L:6. Barriers (with technology or other areas) 
L:Integrating withing tightly discipline-oriented high school science curriculum. 
L:Dealing with multiple spatial data formats. 
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L:7. Status of project (i.e. planning, development, production) 
L:Alpha prototyping. Restricting FY99 focus to tools to investigate linkages between water quality and
L:stream ecology. 
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L:8. Dissemination avenues - contributions to the literature (i.e. reviewed 
L:journals, conference presentations, etc.) 
L:Presentation at SC '98. (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb/Projects/Toolsuite/sc98_index.html)
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