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An effective youth development-based training program includes such key elements as building trust, engaging participants, and setting high expectations. This article presents practical suggestions and a useful checklist for program...
DATE: March 1st, 2000
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In this article, Kate Harding shares a checklist developed by the Holden Arboretum that can help museums plan for on-site visitor studies....
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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The Lawrence Hall of Science will develop a 3000 sq. ft. traveling interactive chemistry exhibit in which visitors will conduct a variety of basic chemical tests within the motivational genre...
DATES: October 1st, 1994 - September 30th, 1997
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Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom) was designed to provide an attractive, open access route for all high school students to the realm of relevant and useful chemical phenomena. What began...
DATES: July 1st, 1988 - December 31st, 1991
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The Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit (CaSTL)’s outreach program in collaboration with the California Science Project at Irvine (CSPI), housed at the Center for Educational Partnerships at UC...
DATE: September 1st, 2013
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The goal of this outreach program was for Chemistry at the Space-Time (CaSTL) limit to partner with the Boys and Girls Club (BGC) of Santa Ana, CA to increase their...
DATES: September 1st, 2012 - July 31st, 2014
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It is critical that we increase public knowledge and understanding of science and technology issues through formal and informal learning for the United States to maintain its competitive edge in...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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This 6,000-square-foot temporary exhibition ran from March 2003 to January 2004 and was located in two galleries on the second floor, connected by a "bridge" across the atrium. The exhibition...
DATE: February 1st, 2004
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WNET/Thirteen will produce a series of 10 one hour public television programs, "CHILDHOOD" that will explore how children grow and develop,and how parents and societies have raised children throughout history...
DATES: June 15th, 1987 - May 31st, 1992
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This study of American adults’ attitudes towards children’s experiences in nature was based on survey data from 2,138 people who participated in an independently commissioned, online consumer survey in February...
DATE: June 18th, 2010
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The project is designed to engage Hispanic students in grades K-5 in STEM in afterschool programs within community-based organizations (CBOs). The project builds on the foundation of an NSF-supported afterschool...
DATES: October 1st, 2013 - September 30th, 2017
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This article describes a front-end evaluation conducted by researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Prospect Park Zoo in planning for the new "In Living Color" exhibit. The evaluation examined how...
DATE: January 1st, 2003
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This chapter discusses variation in the organization of children’s involvement in cultural activities. In particular, we examine three widespread cultural traditions that organize children’s learning and participation in cultural activities:...
DATE: November 16th, 2006
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This paper explores the usefulness of children's drawings as tools for zoo exhibit evaluation. This paper presents preliminary analysis of children's drawings of completed exhibits at Woodland Park Zoological Gardens,...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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Measures children's global attitudes and knowledge about environmental issues, such as animals, energy, pollution, recycling, water, and general issues....
DATE: November 7th, 2008
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This study investigated the effectiveness of a combined museum and classroom intervention project on science learning in low-income children. The focus of the program was on children's content knowledge and...
DATE: January 1st, 2004
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Many informal science and mathematics education projects employ multiple media, but studies typically have investigated learning from a single medium, rather than multiple media. The present research, funded by the...
DATE: December 31st, 2010
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Many informal science and mathematics education projects employ multiple media, assuming that educational benefits will extend beyond those of a single medium. However, this assumption has not been tested empirically...
DATES: September 1st, 2007 - December 31st, 2010
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The Queens Borough Public Library (QBPL) will develop "Science in the Stacks," an integrated, multi-sensory, self-paced informal learning environment within its forthcoming Children's Library Discovery Center. It will include 36...
DATES: September 1st, 2005 - November 30th, 2011
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Suitable for planners, educationalists and environmentalists, this book introduces the theory and the practice of children's participation, and its importance for developing democracy and sustainable communities....
DATE: January 1st, 1997
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In this article, Barbara A. Birney of Interpretive Planning in Nuce discusses findings from a 1988 study of 12-year-old children's perceptions of their social experience in musuems and zoos. Birney...
DATE: September 1st, 1993
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Guided by contextual and constructivist perspectives, this study situates museumgoing in the everyday lives of children, exploring how children perceive their experiences in museums in relationship to the other places...
DATE: January 1st, 1994
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Measures elementary school children's attitudes towards science in a learning context....
DATE: November 7th, 2008
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Although today's children have become the benefactors of an evolving technological society, few studies have addressed the assessment of their attitudes toward technology. This study describes the development of the...
DATE: September 17th, 2002
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Research shows that between ages 10 and 14, children’s interest in science declines sharply. This study investigates 10- and 11-year-old children’s attitudes toward science and relates it to identity, finding...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
