The course timeline suggests an order of presentation for a high school computational science course. This order has as its end goal the completion of a computational science project. During the first nine weeks the students will learn to use the Internet and visualization tools. In addition, they will be forming teams and selecting a project topic. Math modeling will be presented in the first nine weeks and revisited throughout the year. The concentration of the second nine weeks is on learning the basics of either the FORTRAN 77 or Fortran 90 programming language. During the third nine weeks students will focus on project development and be presented with extensions of Fortran, math modeling and visualization. The course culminates with the writing of the technical paper and project presentation in the fourth nine weeks.
The textbook and teachers' manual are draft documents and will undergo revisions during the 1996-97 school year. We would appreciate your input, suggestions, and contributions to both the student textbook and teachers' manual. Innovative and original lesson plans that fit within the scope of this high school computational science textbook will be welcomed.
