Conference Session

Outreach and K-12

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Mary Elizabeth Foltz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Topics

Outreach and K-12

attend an in-personcamp. Therefore, we believe it is worth reflecting on the benefits and challenges of thisreformatted summer camp and suggest ways online student experience can be improved in thefuture.In this paper, we specifically focus on the water quality module, which was reformatted for onlinedelivery. The module originally used multiple techniques (i.e., probes and test strips) to test thequality of various water sources, including a creek running through campus. The virtual modulealso tested water quality, but each student chose a water source near them and results werecompiled and compared for different samples across the country. While both versions (in-personand virtual) included an interactive lesson on water quality and treatment