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North Temperate Lakes SchoolYard (SLTER) Program

For Parents and Students

Opportunities for Students

North Temperate Lakes LTER and the Center for Biology Education offer academic year and summer enrichment programs for K-12 students.

Saturday Enrichment and College for Kids

We offer a Winter Limnology Workshop for students grades 5-8 as part of the Saturday Enrichment Program and Summer College for Kids Workshop on Limnology.

See Saturday Enrichment Program and College for Kids for information and application materials.

Summer Internships for High School Students

The Center for Biology Education and North Temperate Lakes offer summer research internships for high school students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Summer Science Institute. See http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/ssi/index.html for additional materials and an application.

Go to http://lter.limnology.wisc.edu/K_12_zooplanktonprp.ppt to see a slide presentation by two of our high school student interns that did research on zooplankton.

See the Summer Science Institute 2007 Journal.

Activities for Families

Make a Mini-Lake

Try this at Home! Limnology research at North Temperate Lakes often includes field and laboratory experiments to determine patterns, relationships, causes, and effects. You can do limnology at home with our Make A Mini-Lake materials. You can download this at http://www.wisc.edu/cbe/cbe_pubs/makeaminilake.doc to find all of the background that you need to set your own limnology experiments using recycled containers like quart jars or 1-liter water bottles.