K-12 Geospatial Science and Technology Education

AmericaView and West Virginia View

www.americaview.org www.wvview.org

• RS Data Archive – Landsat jpegs by county

• NSF-sponsored ‘DONT GUESS’ project

How does local land cover influence local hydrology?

How does local land cover influence local hydrology?

W.Va. to Lead National Effort for Common Science Standards

September 20, 2011CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia is among 20 states selected to lead a national effort to improve science education for all students through the development of Next Generation Science Standards. 

http://www.nextgenscience.org/

The Standards are based on NRC Framework for K–12 Science Education, which describes the major practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas that all students should be familiar with by the end of high school, and provides an outline of how these practices, concepts, and ideas should be developed across the grade levels.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165