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Item An evaluation of the classroom implementation of the Water Exploration Legacy Cycle : an online challenge-based educational program for Texas high school students(2011-08) Mueller, Elizabeth Pelly; Wilson, Clark R.; Ellins, Katherine KellyIn this paper we sought to evaluate the implementation of the Water Exploration Legacy Cycle, a research collaborative project developed by the Institute for Geophysics at The University of Texas at Austin and 4empowerment.com with support from the Texas Water Development Board. This project interviewed six teachers of the 22 science educators who attended a workshop to learn about the Legacy Cycle approach and how to implement the Water Exploration Legacy Cycle curriculum in August of 2010. The research involved a survey and a phone interview, both of which collected data on the training session, the teachers’ abilities to work with the Legacy Cycle within their curriculum, and obstacles they faced with full implementation of the program. Recommendations from this study will aid future developers in creating Legacy Cycle modules that are better adapted to high school classrooms.Item It's the sea, let it be?! : a Legacy Cycle curriculum(2011-12) Cooper, Cynthia Diane; Wilson, Clark R.; Ellins, Katherine K.It is incumbent upon teachers to reach out to students through methods that capitalize on the students' own motivations. Because of the diversity of self-referential personal styles of learning, reaching every student with a cookie-cutter approach to teaching is nearly impossible. This report explores the application of a type of problem-based learning known as "Legacy Cycles" that apply web technology to answer challenges presented as scenarios. The scenarios give students a similar experience to scientists pursuing investigation and research. Students then search for answers to questions, learn more about the processes being taught with hands-on activities, and prepare a product to demonstrate mastery of the content. In this example of the Legacy Cycle, three challenges are used to teach concepts of density, ocean currents and plastic pollution.