Diane Ebert-May and Patricia Sprott are organizing a workshop to assist LTER sites in writing proposals for enhancing education programs at their sites. The Workshop, to be held at the Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan 19-21 November 1999, will challenge and provoke representatives from the LTER sites to consider previous experience and future desires for education programs.
The timing of the workshop -- two years hence the first Schoolyard LTER Supplements -- allows sites an opportunity to bring some experience to the table.
Follow-up
In October 1998, teams of scientists and educators from 13 LTER sites assembled at the Biosphere II conference facility in Arizona to plan and share ideas for further developing their educational programs utilizing LTER resources. Recommendations from the workshop participants included ways to acquire funding required to sustain educational programs at LTER sites.
This workshop is designed to provide support and ideas for developing and writing proposals to programs in the Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of the NSF and to other agencies and/or foundations that support science education programs.
The Workshop
This workshop is intended to assemble teams of two individuals from 13-15 LTER sites to collaborate with each other and with expert science educators who have extensive experience with garnering funding from the NSF and other agencies for science education programs. The goal of the workshop is to formulate ideas and frameworks for competitive proposals. People interested in attending have been encouraged to review existing programs at NSF for ideas.
Teams of interested people from the LTER sites should include the individual who will be the PI on the proposal and a teacher or science educator who will be involved in the project.
The workshop is sponsored by the LTER Network Office, NSF - Division of Environmental Biology, and NSF - Division of Education and Human Resources.
For more information about the LTER Education project, please see the Web site: http://www.lternet.edu/oppts/education/