Teacher Resources

Those wishing to learn more about computational science are invited to investigate these resources.

• Introduction to Computational Science
  A textbook written by Angela B. Shiflet and George W. Shiflet from Wofford College
• Using Excel and Real Data Sets
  An online course

Student Projects

MVHS students learn about parallel processing and build a model of the carbon cycle and its impact on global temperatures.

• Parallel Computing
• Global Warming

MVHS Projects in the News

• Modeling Oscillatory Systems
  A project designed by MVHS teachers and referenced in the textbook, Introduction to Computational Science.
• The MVHS Earthquake Project
  A collaborative project featured by the National Science Foundation.

Assorted Articles

Each article features a computational science project used in the classroom.

• Student-Built Models Enhance Learning in Science and Mathematics
• Flowing Through the Scientific Method
• The Coffee Cooling Modeling Challenge
• Modeling the Black Bear Population
• MVHS Takes Snow to Task

MVHS Tour 1994-2000

The MVHS Tour captures the highlights of the first six years of MVHS.

Teacher Recognition

John Meinzen, Edwardsville High School in Illinois, and Scott Sinex, Prince George's Community College, Largo, Maryland, were selected as the 2008 Verona Computational Science Teacher Leader and Outreach Leader Award winners, respectively. Both educators have set an example for the effective integration of computational models to enhance student learning in their own classrooms. In addition, they have worked diligently to share computational science strategies with other teachers through professional development workshops. The awards were announced at the SC08 Education Program in Austin, Texas on November 15, 2008.

Project Recognition

• Seeing is Believing, an article in Scholastic Administrator, describes how MVHS simulations are used to extend standard science lab experiments (2006).
• Maryland Virtual High School-Integrating Technology and Teacher Professionalism with Science Education Reform, an article written by Mary Ellen Verona, was published in Boston University's Journal of Education, Vol. 81 No. 2. (2002)
• Websims: Creating an Online Science Lab, an article written by Mary Ellen Verona, was published as a case study in Cybereducation: the Future of Long Distance Learning (2001).
• MVHS CoreModels was designated as a promising technology project by the U.S. Department of Education (2000).
• MVHS was chosen by the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards to become part of the Smithsonian Institution's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology Innovation (1998).