My name is Nasrin F. Attar. I have a Ph.D. in water resources engineering and I am currently working as a university lecturer at UUT (Urmia University of Technology) and guest professor at UU (Urmia University) teaching lessons on “water resources engineering”, “water resources projects” and “water structures”.
For the water structure lesson, I teach my students about hydraulic structures such as dams, weirs, spillways, etc. For dams, I ask each of my students to consider a country and search for its dams. This year I used the R-Girls ready made Mapping lesson in my classroom. Students found the dams on GoogleEarth and showed the dam types and their 3D location and then used R code which is currently posted on the RGirlsschool website.
It is a fantastic, informative code used to teach school girls how to find a place in the world by its longitude and latitude coordinates. As not all the students were familiar with R, I gave them some tips to get started and then asked them to find the dam locations using R code. It was nice to see how quickly all the students progressed with this task and see their enjoyment.
R-Girls-Schools is a worldwide network to promote the use of R — a leading data science programming language — in secondary schools for girls, founded by Green Oak Academy, Birmingham UK. This site consists of different coding examples for teen girls. It was a great experience for me to use their ready made lessons in my teaching.