Dan Zalles

The Heat is On: Understanding Local Climate Change part of Visualization:Examples
Students draw conclusions about the extent to which multiple decades of temperature data about Phoenix suggest that a shift in local climate is taking place as opposed to exhibiting nothing more than natural ...

Lessons on River Ecosystems part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
These lessons immerse students in thinking about the big idea of an environmental system as a network of interrelationships and evaluating the goodness of policy options for the environment in the future.

Alternative futures lesson part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
This lesson is the culmination of a course on river systems restoration being taught at the University of Washington as part of the Project "Data Sets and Inquiry in Geoscience Environmental Restoration ...

Teaching About River Systems to High School and Undergraduate Students part of Complex Systems:Workshop 2010:Participant Essays
Project: Data Sets and Inquiry in Geoscience Environmental Restoration Studies (NSF GEO-0808076) Authors: Daniel Zalles, Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International and David Montgomery, Dep't of ...