Art McKee Our current activities include informal linkages with local school districts and more formal partnerships with established programs targeting minority students in grades 4-12, and summertime teacher education programs that involve middle school and high school teachers.
Students visit field sites and conduct field lab exercises.
The intent is to make these field labs a long-term component to the high school science program. Stuart Perlmeter, a high school biology teacher in Springfield and one of the Andrews Forest delegates to the workshop is the project coordinator. Jon Yoder, one of the Andrews Forest delegates to the workshop is a co-investigator on the NCSR grant and a high school biology teacher in the Salem, OR district. These are largely, but not exclusively, ecosystem-oriented educational activities. He also has developed a clearinghouse relating to natural resource educational materials, some of which come from the Andrews LTER program.