CAWS: Collaboration through Appalachian Watershed Studies

生物科学（61）.该CCLI适应和实施第二类项目支持来自五个州的六个阿巴拉契亚地区机构（费鲁姆学院，国王学院，西瓦尼：南方大学，林赛威尔逊学院，西弗吉尼亚卫斯理学院和蒙特雷特学院）的合作，他们正在寻求通过对各自学院附近流域的合作研究来加强其实地科学课程。 该项目通过采用小流域研究方法，解决了让学生参与基于实践调查的实验活动的需要-提供共享课程（通过在线小流域研究实验室手册（电子手册）），电子数据共享，以及参与由每个校园设备齐全的实地支持的跨站点合作学生研究项目。 除了基于调查的实验室练习（仿照LTER和地球仪活动），并在所有流域网站的共同研究项目的参与，学生可以进行个人设计的实地研究，在线和学生研究研讨会上分享他们的发现。 教师还在教师发展讲习班上接受使用设备和方法的培训。 这个项目可以作为其他小型本科院校希望通过环境或实地研究的合作方法来提高学生学习的模式。

Biological Science (61). This CCLI Adaptation and Implementation Type II project supports the collaboration of six regional Appalachian institutions from five states (Ferrum College, King College, Sewanee: The University of the South, Lindsey Wilson College, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and Montreat College) who are seeking to strengthen their field science offerings by the collaborative study of watersheds near their respective colleges. The project addresses the need to engage students in hands-on inquiry-based experimental activities through the adoption of a small watershed research approach -- providing shared curricula (via an online Lab Manual for Small Watershed Studies (eManual)), electronic data sharing, and participation in cross-site collaborative student research projects supported by fully equipped field sites at each campus. In addition to inquiry-based laboratory exercises (modeled after LTER and GLOBE activities), and participation in a common research project across all watershed sites, students may conduct personally designed field studies, sharing their findings online and at a student research symposium. Instructors also receive training in the use of the equipment and methodology at faculty development workshops. This project may serve as a model for other small undergraduate institutions hoping to improve student learning via a collaborative approach to environmental or field studies.