Introduction to Student Guide
Students, this is your guide. With the steps described in this section, and with the help of the staff at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Environmental Protection Agency, and Arlington Echo, you will create and implement your own environmental research projects.
The pages in this student guide will give you additional information and links to useful resources for each step in the process towards a finished, published research project.
If at any point you have questions, please contact your teacher or the STAR coordinator.
Step 1: Developing a Research Proposal
Step 2: Field Sampling
Step 3: Lab Analysis
Step 4: Data Analysis
Step 5: Report Writing
Step 6: Publishing and Presenting