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Enhancing Environmental Literacy through LTER Education

Explore unique educational opportunities in environmental literacy through Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) at Ramat Hanadiv. Monitor ecological changes, analyze data, and engage in interdisciplinary learning. Collaborate with global networks to solve environmental and socio-economic problems.

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Enhancing Environmental Literacy through LTER Education

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  1. Dr. Saleit Ron Head of Education Ramat Hanadiv A Joint Schoolyard ILTER for Students in Israel and the US

  2. Ramat Hanadiv

  3. Ecological research (25 years) LTER site since 2003

  4. LTER stations and the databases they develop create a number of unique educational opportunities for enhancing environmental literacy: • The ability to monitor long-term patterns and phenomena • The ability to analyze and synthesize the data collected at different stations • The ability to undertake learning relating to large-scale systems typical of most of the systems on Earth • The accumulation of data from different systems and over time by different educational communities enables the development of unique mutual relations • The potential for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary generalization is more similar to the context of problem solving in the real world.

  5. The concept: students monitor their environment- LTER-EDU at Ramat Hanadiv LTER-EDU LTER- Long Term Ecological Research Environment –ecological changes over time and space

  6. www.ramathanadiv-edu.org.il

  7. Bartaa- Arab Muslim Hof Carmel - Kibbutz Pardes Hanna- Agriculural school

  8. What do we monitor and how? • Abiotic data • Vegetation • Arthropods • Butterflies • Birds • Vegetation litter • Water

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  10. ILTER "ILTER’s vision is a world in which science helps prevent and solve environmental and socio-ecological problems“ ILTER can contribute to solving international ecological and socio-economic problems through question and problem-driven research, with a unique ability to design collaborative, site-based projects, compare data from a global network of sites and detect global trends.

  11. http://www.ilternet.edu/education

  12. Teachers as Researchers at the Andrews LTER Site • Goal: To increase middle and high school teachers’ capacity • to involve students in authentic field-based inquiry by • engaging teachers with scientists at the Andrews LTER. • As a result, teachers: • engaged students more often in field-based science inquiry projects in their local communities and schoolyards. • extended their communication, collaboration, problem solving, and sharing with one another beyond workshops. • engaged students of varying academic abilities in field-based projects. • seek opportunities to deepen and enhance skills through additional workshops, RET positions, and as teacher leaders.

  13. 2010 2011 2012 2013 A joint schoolyard ILTER project for students in Israel and the US

  14. Field Investigations and international data sharing, a teacher workshop at Oregon State University on February 26, 2013 to initiate a cooperative decomposition study.

  15. Euro-Med training course at Ramat Hanadiv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psO90pLWSnM

  16. On- line, GIS based reports: http://thewandering.net/blogs/ramat-hanadiv http://thewandering.net/activities/squares/sites/site_02/

  17. LTER-EDU • Looking forward to future collaboration saleit@ramathanadiv.org.il

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