Post on 18-Jan-2016
LTER Education Outreach
Elena Bautista Sparrow
School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences,International Arctic Research Center and The Center for Global Change, University of Alaska Fairbanks
March 6, 2009
LTER Education Outreach
Education Outreach
K-12 StudentsUndergraduate &
Graduate studentsPostdoctoral fellows
General Public
EO Highlights• High School Students present at an
International Conference• Curriculum Developed by a former LTER
graduate student• SEEDS- Strategies for Ecology Education,
Development, and Sustainability • Collaboration/Integration of LTER Science with
Arts and the Humanities
Students set up study sites after a 2005 forest fire in Shageluk, Alaska.
High School Students from Innoko River School presented their Boreal ForestStudy at the GLOBE Learning Expedition in Capetown, South Africa
Students from Model Secondary School for the Deaf Collaborated with students from Indiana School for the Deafon a Seasons and Biomes Budburst Study and were selected to present at the 2008 GLOBE Learning Expedition in South Africa.
Tyler, Joshua, Lateefah & Kelsey
WEED WACKERS!K-6 Educators Guide to Invasive Plants of Alaska
By Katie L. Villano and Christine P. Villano Illustrated by John P. Smelter
October 2008
Salcha-Delta Soil and Water Conservation District
With Generous Support from:
• Unit 1, Alaskan teachers and students will become familiarized with invasive and non-native plant species currently in Alaska.
• Unit 2, Students will conduct meaningful, cutting edge research in experiments adapted from current University of Alaska experiments.
• Unit 3, Students will explore the relationships between human society, culture and invasive plants in Alaska.
Learning Cycle Model (ASC 2008)
Dr. T shows exclosures Making a hypothesis Counting Seedlings
Permafrost probing! Hiking up the CPCRW road Vegetation transects
Strategies for Ecology Education, Development, and Sustainability (SEEDS) program.
May 26-May 30, 2008 ESA SEEDS at BNZ LTER
United Negro College Fund SEEDS program. Visit and class at BNZ LTER Aug. 4-8-2008
Collaboration/Integration of LTER Science with Arts and the Humanities
Ice e-MysteryIce e-Mystery
Classes paired between Australia and Alaska Each pair writes and illustrates collaborative
mystery story focused on the polar regions Books done electronically using web platform
189 schools in 20 Countries have participated in the GLOBE Phenology Measurement protocols that we developed at UAF.
GLOBESeasons andBiomes Project
Green-up
Green-down
We need mentors for High School Summer Research Interns