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Description
Description
The Guide for Designing Environmental Community Science Programs with Schools is intended to share what the Our Forests team has learned about how to do place-based Youth Community and Citizen Science (YCCS) with students and teachers. This guide informs how to design community-based citizen science programs in elementary schools with the wider participatory sciences and environmental educator audiences working in and out of schools. Specifically, we intend for the guide to support:
YCCS practitioners to design and implement environmental monitoring in collaboration with local schools
Teachers and school administrators to collaborate with local community partners to implement an environmental monitoring program with their school
Environmental Educators and teachers to implement the Our Forests curriculum
The Guide for Designing Environmental Community Science Programs with Schools is a product of a collaborative Research-Practice Partnership project of the Center for Community and Citizen Science at University of California, Davis, the Sierra Streams Institute, and the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools, located in Nevada County, California.
Communication Templates
Communication Templates
The Our Forests communication templates can be helpful for YCCS practitioners and educators connecting with schools, teachers, and scientific community partners in their program. The templates can be modified and include language for:
Overview of a YCCS Program for teachers
Recruitment email tailored towards principals
YCCS program recruitment flier for parents and other family members
Preparing for field day, communication to teachers
YCCS Program overview, communication to the Scientific Community Partner
Community Partner share-out prep: Coordinator to Community Partner
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