Location:
North Carolina
Virginia

Description:
The Mathematics of the Dismal Swamp Project supports a team of professors from Elizabeth City State University to use research on The Great Dismal Swamp Project as a platform for development of a mathematics education course that incorporates a generic wetlands application. The focus of the project is to improve pre-service math education students' understanding of the interdisciplinary nature (includes biology, organisms and aquatic levels; chemistry; geoscience, estuaries and swamp; and mathematics and analysis of the data) associated with Earth system science. Four new modules will be developed, which include an interdisciplinary approach for incorporating Earth system science in the targeted mathematics education course.

The project is sponsored by The NASA Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) Education Program, Elizabeth City State University, and the Minority University-SPace Interdisciplinary Network (MUSPIN) Office of Goddard Space Flight Center.

Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Contact:
Dr. Linda Bailey Hayden, NASA Network Resources and Training Site, Elizabeth City State University, Box 672, 1704 Weeksville Road, Elizabeth City, NC 27909; Phone: (252) 335-3696; Fax: (252) 335-3790; Email: lhayden@umfort.cs.ecsu.edu

Education Level:
Kindergarten-Grade 4
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12

Subject:
Earth System Science
Mathematics
Water Resources

Program type:
Teacher Training (Pre-service)
 
 

Date Added to teachearth.com:
5/1/00