Exploring the Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Water Resources Engineering Module in an Eighth Grade Science Course

JODY L. RISKOWSKI, CARRIE DAVIS TODD, BRYAN WEE, MELISSA DARK and JON HARBOR University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79902, USA. E-mail: jlriskowski2@utep.edu University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA, 15904, USA. E-mail: davistod@pitt.edu University of Colorado, Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80217, USA. E-mail: bryan.wee@cudenver.edu Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. E-mail: dark@purdue.edu E-mail: jharbor@purdue.edu

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