[LTER-education] Websites that house curriculum for teachers to discover?

[Marty Downs]

I have to pop in with a reminder that we also have a (formatted, organized,
searchable) resource on the LTER Network website:
https://lternet.edu/education-digital-library/
There is a chicken-and-egg problem with it, though. There aren't enough
resources uploaded to make it worthwhile to do a lot of promotion -- and
there's no reason for you all to add resources if it's not being
effectively promoted.

To make it really work, we would need a concerted effort to add as many
LTER resources as possible to the site. If it were fleshed out with a bunch
of resources, we could add a site (or region) category to the filters and
provide you with a link to the resources for your site or region (or a feed
of the posts). That would allow you to easily build on each other's
resources and (once we hit some critical mass), make it worthwhile for the
LNO to invest in sending someone (one of us or one of you) to promote it at
NSTA meetings.

I haven't promoted this approach in the past because I always thought there
were better (better known and better organized) resources out there that do
the same thing -- and that we should be partnering with them rather than
growing our own. If I'm hearing that there aren't, I'll revise that
thinking. (Although I still think we ought to work with ESA or an
environmental education group to maximize the reach).

Maybe a topic for an upcoming meeting?
Marty

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:20 PM Annette Brickley <abrickley.edu at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm blanking on one I used to use, but I've recently found
> https://ngss.nsta.org/classroom-resources.aspx to be useful.
> If it fits into climate and energy,
> https://cleanet.org/clean/educational_resources/collection/index.html
> Or, if it fits, SERC has options for contributing as well:
> https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/contribute.html
>
> Annette Laursen Brickley (she, her, hers)
>
> NES-LTER Education & Outreach Coord.
> S
> TEMming the Gaps Consulting
> Mattapoisett
> , MA
> 207-951-6273 (mobile)
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:48 PM Alexandra Rose <
> alexandra.rose at colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I’m working with some graduate students on developing hands-on activities
>> intended specifically for classroom use (not really formal curricula).
>> There are so many things on line now, especially given current events, but
>> are you aware of any particularly reputable, long-lived websites where
>> people can upload curriculum-like content for teachers (and informal
>> educators) to discover and use? Many of the sites I’m aware of seem to only
>> house their own activities that they’ve developed in-house.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any leads!
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexandra P. Rose, PhD
>>
>> CU Science Discovery
>>
>> Niwot Ridge and McMurdo LTER
>>
>> 4001 Discovery Dr., 610 UCB
>>
>> SEEC, Room S230B
>>
>> Boulder, CO 80309
>>
>>
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