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Students participate in SLTER Program
Third-grade participants collect zoo plankton through a hole in the ice as part of the North Temperate Lakes Schoolyard Long-Term Ecological Research (SLTER) Program. SLTER is a sub-program of the North Temperate Lakes LTER, an NSF-supported program administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison that studies the ecology of seven lakes in northern Wisconsin and four in southern Wisconsin, as well as their surrounding landscapes. The Schoolyard LTER provides enrichment activities for elementary-, middle- and high-school students that include field trips, classroom visits and residential academic summer camps, and professional development opportunities for elementary-, middle- and high-school teachers such as field trips, one or two-day workshops and three-week summer courses. (Date of Image: Winter 2003)
Credit: Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin - Madison
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