New Grant Funds Summer Institute for Teachers

The Harvard Forest, in collaboration with the Hitchcock Center for the Environment and the Millers River Environmental Center, offers a Forest Ecology training institute for teachers of grades 1-9, from Amherst, Athol, Orange and Montague. Teachers will learn how to implement field studies related to local ecosystems with their students. The Institute will run from August 16 - 18th.

This grant was funded by NSF EdEn Venture Fund for Innovation in Environmental Science and Engineering Education (Grant No. DEB-0080592) and the Greenleaf Foundation.