Development and Management of the LTER Schoolyard Children's Book Series

长期生态研究（LTER）网络由26个广泛分布的实地项目组成，主要由NSF支持。 LTER成功推出了一个？校园儿童？系列图书？作为通过LTER校园（K-12）计划将联合收割机科学研究和科学教育结合起来的大规模长期努力的一个组成部分。校园系列的使命声明是：？让孩子和他们的家庭参与了解地球的生态系统，无论是在当地还是国际上，通过叙述，反映在国家科学基金会的长期生态研究网站正在进行的动态研究。在校园系列中出版了两本书：“我的水是从山上来的。由尼沃特岭（CO）LTER和？失落的封印？由麦克默多干谷（南极）LTER。这项建议是为了设立一个基金，以支持该系列书籍的开发，并在每个参与LTER的网站向教育工作者和儿童分发书籍。该基金的目的是提高校园系列对各个长期教育和研究网站的价值和影响，并保持校园系列的总体势头，以实现每年出版一至两本书的目标。该基金将由与LTER有联系的非营利哈伯德布鲁克研究基金会管理，该基金会还将接受其他组织和个人对该系列图书的支持。我们的期望是，在校园系列的新书将被购买的图书馆，选择有完整的系列。预付给作者和插图画家的款项将退还给校园系列基金，用于支持未来的图书项目。

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network consists of 26 widely distributed field projects supported mainly by NSF. LTER successfully launched a ?Schoolyard Children?s Book Series? as one component of a broad-scale, long-term effort to combine scientific research and science education through the LTER Schoolyard (K-12) program. The mission statement for the Schoolyard Series is: ?to engage children and their families in learning about the earth's ecosystems, both locally and internationally, through narratives that reflect the dynamic research being conducted at the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Sites.? Two books have been published in the Schoolyard Series: ?My Water Comes from the Mountains?, by the Niwot Ridge (CO) LTER and ?The Lost Seal? by the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Antarctic) LTER. This proposal is for establishment of a Fund to support the development of books in the series and distribution of books to educators and children at each of the participating LTER sites. The purpose of the Fund is to enhance the value and impact of the Schoolyard Series for the individual LTER sites and to maintain the overall momentum for the Schoolyard Series, towards a goal of publishing one to two books per year. The Fund will be managed by the non-profit, LTER-linked Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, which will also accept support for the book series from other organizations and individuals. The expectation is that new books in the Schoolyard Series will be acquired by libraries that choose to have the complete series. Advances to authors and illustrators will be paid back into the Schoolyard Series Fund for use to support future book projects.