Harvard
Forest Schoolyard Ecology will be in the house!
Creating Student Video for Climate Education
Friday, April 4 9:30–10:30 AM
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 251
Students use the NGSS and combine climate science,
systems thinking, and science communications skills through media production.
Using the Climate Education in an Age of Media (CAM) project at the University
of Massachusetts Lowell and Harvard Forest
LTER Schoolyard Program, Buds, Leaves & Global Warming, students learn to
collect data on important long-term ecological issues and processes. They
report what they have learned through media.
Presenter(s): Donna Cochrane (North Attleboro High
School: North Attleboro, MA)
GRADE
LEVEL: High School
Being Scientists: Involving Fifth-Graders in Real Science
Saturday, April 5 2:00–3:00 PM
The Westin Boston Waterfront, Alcott
Elementary teacher Kate Bennett has been involving her
grades 5–6 students in authentic field research for the past seven years in
collaboration with Harvard Forest, an
ecological research center affiliated with Harvard University. Join us as we
share very accessible resources and stories about making science come to life
in the classroom.
Presenter(s): Pamela Snow (Harvard Forest: Petersham,
MA); Kate Bennett (John R. Briggs Elementary School: Ashburnham, MA)
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary-High School
