Martha Downs - Educators

Harvard Forest’s schoolyard workshop trains teachers to graph and interpret long-term data

tmcowiti — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:47:02 +0000

In January 2012, six experienced teachers from the Harvard Forest (HFR) Schoolyard Ecology Program took part in a pilot Advanced Graphing Workshop at the Forest.

Technology enables cross-site RET exchange

tmcowiti — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:14:48 +0000

With the help of an Adobe Connects virtual classroom, Kari O’Connell (AND) and Beth Simmons (CCE and PAL) coordinated the first cross-site virtual Research Experience for Teachers (RET) exchange this August.

Harvard Schoolyard LTER teacher published

tmcowiti — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:45:00 +0000

Kate Bennett, a 5th grade Schoolyard Ecology Teacher working with Harvard Forest LTER, has just published an article in the National Science Teacher Association’s journal, Science and Chil

Harvard Forest's Summer Institute for Teachers: ecology research in the schoolyard

administrator — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:04:05 +0000

Thirty-six teachers and environmental educators participated in this year's Summer Institute for Teachers at Harvard Forest.

Andrews LTER Inspires “lessons in ecology”

lyanabu — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:28:29 +0000

In 2003, New York City high school teacher Lyn Neeley worked with LTER scientist Kari O’Connell collecting data on understory vegetation at the Andrews Forest and assisted with wildfire researc

Harvard Forest sets up Summer Institute for Teachers

lyanabu — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:43:30 +0000

Harvard Forest (HFR) LTER hosted 20 teachers in a newly created Ecology Research in the Schoolyard Summer Institute for Teachers.

Florida Coastal Everglades LTER’s EdEn Venture

lyanabu — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:04:13 +0000

This outreach program, funded as a supplement from the NSF Informal Education program to the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER (FCE), represents a joint project between FCE, Everglades National Park

Education Projects Pave the Way for the Future

lyanabu — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:47:02 +0000

In November 2003 the Ecological Society of America’s Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability (SEEDS) program in collaboration with LTER sponsored an undergraduate field tri

Integrating LTER Research and Education through Graduate Students

lyanabu — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:11:00 +0000

-- Sonia Ortega, National Science Foundation and the LTER Network Office, with help from Laurel Hartley, Shortgrass Steppe LTER

Education Update

lyanabu — Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:43:11 +0000

It’s shaping up to be an active year for Education in LTER. As you can see, we need full participation from everyone to get the most out of our planned activities.