About Us & Educational Outreach

Ecology Explorers is in your local Phoenix area

The Ecology Explorers program leads you through specific steps and into asking scientific questions. We have developed protocols with CAP LTER scientists that you will follow to collect initial data, study your data, and report your data to help our scientific community.

The most creative and fun parts of science include: looking for patterns in nature, developing hypotheses, designing and running experiments, and analyzing results. Though there are a few things you should learn about scientific protocols before moving to these steps within the scientific process.

We can teach you how scientists explore using protocols

Learn data collection techniques used by scientists called protocols. Collect initial data, using the “protocols” you’ve learned.

The data you study can be used to look for patterns in your own research site (schoolyard or backyard), and it can be shared with other researchers and school kids to see what patterns in nature exist across the Phoenix metropolitan area.