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State of BNZ LTER Education and Outreach

State of BNZ LTER Education and 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. February 16, 2008. K-12 Education. Cross-site Activities.

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State of BNZ LTER Education and Outreach

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  1. State of BNZ LTER Education and 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 February 16, 2008

  2. K-12 Education Cross-site Activities Postsecondary Education Education Outreach Outreach to the Public Outreach to Agencies Ties to other Longterm Research Programs

  3. Highlights • Involvement of Alaska Native high school students in LTER research • Curriculum Development based on LTER research • Collaboration/Integration of LTER Science with Arts and the Humanities

  4. 2007 High School Summer Research Interns

  5. Invasive Plants of Alaska K-6 Curriculum Development Project: Integrating Global Change Research and K-6 Science Standards Katie L. Villano University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of Biology and Wildlife & Christine P. Villano Denali Elementary School, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

  6. Assessing wildfire burn susceptibility to invasive plant colonization in black spruce forests of interior Alaska – Villano, Mulder, Hollingsworth • White sweetclover in Alaska: can this invasive affect the floodplain vegetative community? – Spellman & Wurtz • Role of climate in invasive plant range expansion in Arctic Alaska – • Villano & Spellman

  7. Curriculum Development Project Objectives 1. Adapt and apply current Alaskan invasive plant research to elementary-level classroom lessons, activities, and inquiries. 2. Publish and distribute Invasive Plants of Alaska comprehensive K-6 curriculum guide addressing Alaska Science Performance Standards, Grade Level Expectations and Core Concepts. 3. Create and distribute teaching materials kits for easy classroom implementation of Invasive Plants of Alaska lessons, activities and inquiries. A living time line of boreal forest post-fire succession in the schoolyard. Top to bottom: Forest after a recentfire, shrub phase, mature spruce forest.

  8. Objective 1:Adapting and applying current invasive plant research First Grade Inquiry Katie’s Thesis Research

  9. Objective 2:Curriculum guide incorporating AK science standards

  10. Objective 3:Build Teaching Materials Kits • Kits will be available at: • Denali Elementary School • Salcha-Delta Soil & Water Conservation District Noxious Weed and Conservation Ed. Programs • Center for Global Change and Arctic Systems Research • Creamer's Field Wildlife Refuge "Living Laboratory" kit collection • Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Library Media Services • Kit materials will include: • Portable grow lights • Plant presses • Invasive and native plant seeds • Greenhouse pots • Greenhouse trays • Temperature sensor • Hand lenses • Kids books on invasive plants, general plants, AK plants, and natural disturbances • Curriculum Guide

  11. Vegetation transects Hiking up the CPCRW road Permafrost probing! Making a hypothesis Counting Seedlings Dr. T shows exclosures

  12. 1st graders can be LTER scientists too! They showed their school what they learned at CPCRW. Measuring invasive plants growing in burned soil Will vetch grow better in burned or unburned soil? Making observations of plant growth in burned and unburned soil cores Entering data on the computer! Bird Vetch Research

  13. Photo by Marjorie Hall • Cross-site collaboration with HJ Andrews Forest LTER • Collaboration of artists, writers and scientists

  14. Photo by Marjorie Hall • LTER Humanities Public Outreach Event • - Public presentation at the Pioneer Park Theater on • March 21, 2008

  15. Northern Temperate Lakes LTER Saving Our Spruce by JD Slack Ice Messengers by Diane Randolph Moose Running by Joyce Koskenmaki

  16. It’s Just Math by Bonnie Peterson

  17. Needs for science involvement • BNZ LTER is hosting two workshops for minority undergraduate students May 19-30, 2008 - ESA’s SEEDS program - Historically Black College

  18. 2007 High School Summer Research Interns We need mentors for 2008 high school research interns

  19. Some Suggestions for Involvement • Plan and work on activities • Face to face interactions between ecologists and diverse students • Opportunity for hands-on field research • Panel for professionals to share their career pathways and advice with the students

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