Educators

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.