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Initial Publication Date: February 26, 2020
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Webinar about teaching this module: Teaching About the Water Cycle with Data-rich Water Resources Activities
Dr. Jon Harvey
Provenance: Jonathan Harvey, Fort Lewis College
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Jonathan Harvey: Earth Systems Science at Fort Lewis College in Colorado. Jon taught this module in a 40-student introductory course for non-science majors at a 4-year Native American-serving public liberal arts college. He felt like the inclusion of this module helped break up the lecture-lecture-lecture-lab cycle of the course and get students digging more meaningfully into water data.