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The Echinacea Project is recruiting an enthusiastic K-12 or community college educator for a paid professional development opportunity researching tallgrass prairie during the summer field season. As an NSF-funded RET (Research Experiences for Teachers) participant, you will gain hands-on experience,  collect experimental data, generate hypotheses, develop your own research project, and design a plan to bring scientific concepts and methods into your classroom.

Previous RET participants’ projects have included:

• Designing a lesson plan for students to generate and test hypotheses about plants their natural habitat
• Developing bee collection methods for secondary and post-secondary classrooms
• Establishing an experimental prairie restoration for students to develop science skills such as hypothesis testing and data collection
• Creating an experimentation-based outdoor lesson plan and assessing students’ responsiveness to different learning techniques
• Constructing a dichotomous key for pollen identification in high school biology classes

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