Earth Partnership for Schools

Filming the children as they begin to sweep the prairie to explore the insect population.

Earth Partnership for Schools holds summer institutes for teachers, students and community members to learn how to make ecology more relevant in the classroom, home and hometown.

We are visiting for two days to see how participants learn and grow and take these concepts home to their own communities.  Here we follow kids visiting a prairie, the Curtis Prairie, for the first time, as citizen scientists, observing, collecting data and learning how to make use of that information in their daily lives, including living with nature!

Students use nets to collect specimens for observation and learning.

Students work in teams taking turns sweeping for insects and photographing and recording the data on iPads.

Engagement, inspection and identification. Future Habitat Heroes!