TITLE:   Learning from LTER Data in K-12 Classrooms 
AUTHORS: Marianne Krasny, and Karen S. Baker (PAL)
DATE:    2-4 August 2000
PLACE:   LTER All Scientists Meeting 2000, Long-Term Ecological Research:
	 Unifying Principles & Global Applications, Snowbird, Utah

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         University of California, San Diego, CA 902093-0218
         Organizers of ED-5: Marianne Krasny, and Karen S. Baker (PAL)
	 Workshop:Educational Programs/Populations

ABSTRACT
LTER educators are developing activities focusing on interpretation of existing
LTER data as well as sharing data students have collected themselves. For
example, a Cornell University LTER handbook for teachers includes exercises
focusing on global warming using the North Temperate Lakes ice out data, and on
the effect of clearcutting on hydrologic budgets using Hubbard Brook
Experimental Forest data. At Ohio State University, faculty working with the
McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER have developed opportunities for school children in
Seattle, WA and Tuscaloosa, AL to share data on stream health, and to compare
their measurements with those taken on streams in Antarctica. Such educational
activities can help students to understand ecological principles as well
as data analysis and interpretation.  The workshop will begin with short
presentations by individuals who have developed educational activities based
on data interpretation and data sharing. This will be followed by discussions
of: (1) how to best design these activities to meet the National Science
Education Standards, (2) using the Internet and other computer technologies to
enhance learning, (3) working with the LTER data managers in developing these
activities, and (4) opportunities to coordinate data sharing across LTER sites.