Is there a single page, thread or wiki that describes best practices for educators at different grade levels or for researchers? I don’t know the best approach, but would like to help people find advice that transcends my own instincts. It seems like early grades should use Seek both to protect …

The closest thing on iNatHelp is the Educators’ Guide . It does recommend using Seek for younger children and making students write field journals instead and has the same talking points. Younger Students Let me share my experience (U.S. Common Core). I was laughably irresponsible with the Internet …

In the US, science instruction at the K-12 level is informed, guided or outright aligned to the A Framework for Teaching K-12 Science (National Academies Press). Forty nine of the 50 states, including mine (South Dakota), use the Next Generation Science Standards to set the standards for science ins…

Best practices for educators and researchers

Educators

schoenitz November 12, 2025, 5:29am 2

Spontaneously the Educators category comes to mind, as well as this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inat-for-educators/7187

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Best practices for educators and researchers

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