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The California State University, Los Angeles (CSLA) ACCESS Center [consortium] requests $216,949 to pilot a collaborative with the Los Angeles County Department of Community and Senior Services Community Centers and...
DATES: September 1st, 1999 - March 31st, 2001
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The Museum is partnering with Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) to share data and learn more about L.A. butterflies and moths. Help us find and photograph them in...
DATES: January 1st, 2012 - January 1st, 2012
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In spite of their importance and abundance, we do not know much about the spiders in Los Angeles. There are no truly large collections of urban spiders from this area,...
DATES: January 1st, 2002 - January 1st, 2002
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In this paper, the Exploratorium's Kathleen McLean discusses her concern about the quality of what museums offer visitors. McLean airs a number of assumptions, attitudes and misconceptions she frequently encounters...
DATE: January 1st, 1996
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will develop Lost Civilizations of the Tarim Basin. This will be a 6000 sq. ft. traveling exhibit that will introduce visitors to...
DATES: March 10th, 1998 - January 31st, 2000
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This article reports on a study which used results from 119 scenario–based evaluations of 36 museum Web sites to develop a conceptual framework for analyzing the usability flaws of museum...
DATE: September 6th, 2004
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In this article, Penny Jennings, Senior Exhibit Developer for West Office Exhibition Design, explores three challenges of translation exhibit text: writing, scheduling, and technical logistics. Jennings advises on how to...
DATE: July 1st, 2009
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The Lost Ladybug Project is a citizen science project which, since its inception in 2008, has received contributions of over 13,000 images of ladybug specimens from citizen scientists in North...
DATE: March 1st, 2012
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The Lost Ladybug Project, led by Cornell University's Department of Entomology and funded by the National Science Foundation, is a citizen science project that uses ladybugs as a focal species...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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Researchers from the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS), Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center and two other centers recently published LOST Learning Opportunities: Learning about Out-of-School...
DATE: October 1st, 2012
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With the Museum's increasing interest in urban biodiversity, we have started looking at all types of wildlife in our highly modified industrial, suburban, and urban habitats. One thing that quickly...
DATES: January 1st, 2010 - June 1st, 2013
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The Children's Museum of San Jose, in collaboration with developmental psychology researchers at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and science and education staff of the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP),...
DATES: September 1st, 2008 - August 31st, 2013
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This project will provide for a national tour of a 5,000 square-foot exhibit about the great Inca archaeological site of Machu Picchu, and will give a national public audience the...
DATES: July 10th, 2002 - June 30th, 2003
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While the knowledge economy has reshaped the world, schools lag behind in producing appropriate learning for this social change. Science education needs to prepare students for a future world in...
DATE: February 1st, 2007
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This document outlines front-end and formative evaluation findings including baseline use; improving attraction and holding power and interactions; and improving interfaces. While we found that people like the globe and...
DATE: August 1st, 2010
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This planning grant proposal would develop the logistical, programming and creative specifications for production of Magic Porthole, an innovative Web-based science game for 8-14 year olds. The content and learning...
DATES: July 15th, 2005 - June 30th, 2006
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The Magic School Bus Museum Collaborative, requests through Discovery Places, Inc., NSF support for six science museums and Scholastic Productions, Inc., to develop science education materials that capitalize on the...
DATES: September 1st, 1993 - February 28th, 1997
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The Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program (VLMP) trains and supports volunteers who keep and eye on the health of their lakes. Our volunteers measure multiple indicators of lake water quality...
DATES: January 1st, 1971 - January 1st, 1971
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This paper the development and success of an ambitious plan launched by the Philadelphia Zoo in late 1970's and early 1980s to streamline operating procedures, repair and replace buildings and...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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Students working in small groups during a field trip to a nature center prioritized the maintenance of social roles within groups of friends rather than exhibiting the behaviors that educators...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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Investigators from the MIT Media Lab will develop and study a new generation of the Scratch programming platform, designed to help young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and...
DATES: July 1st, 2010 - June 30th, 2013
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The article discusses the growing interest and excitement over Makerspaces referred to as places where design and entrepreneurial ideas are allowed and where technology and construction equipment are available in...
DATE: October 1st, 2012
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The article discusses the highlights of the sixth annual "Spring Event in Rome on Modern Leonardos" Internet conference co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Italy and The American University of...
DATE: September 1st, 2013
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The article discusses the promotion of creative thinking at school libraries through Makerspace, a space in which students, teachers and librarians can take advantage of multiple learning styles. Individuals who...
DATE: December 1st, 2013
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The authors of this paper conducted an evaluation of two pilot credential programs both starting in Massachusetts in 2007, the School-Age Youth Development Credential (SAYD) and the Professional Youth Worker...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
