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