Lead education initiatives

Significant advancements in the development of interactive IDV bundles, tutorials, and other LEAD-driven educational materials have been accomplished. Undergraduate students at Millersville have developed a suite of interactive IDV bundles, and are working on developing additional modules such as mesoscale radar signatures, and squall lines among others. Work continues on the expansion of the SWEET ontology that involved involves physical quantities, realms, numerics, phenomena, physical properties, space, physical substances, time, units, and dataset properties for finding class and subclass relationships for nearly 1000 quantities. In addition to and different from the SWEET ontology, the LEAD ontology includes a glossary of definitions for each quantity so that it can be utilized later for use in the modules developed in conjunction with the LEAD portal. Furthermore, LEAD teacher partners will be involved with the design of a simple version of the glossary that will be included in the modules for pre-college students and will be incorporated into the basic portal.