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Hidden Villa is a non-profit 1,600-acre organic farm and wilderness preserve dedicated to inspiring a just and sustainable future through multicultural and environmental education programs for children, youth and the...
DATE: October 1st, 2005
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This is a brief summary of Barbara Birney's 1988 article featured in "Environment and Behavior," which discussed key findings from the formative evaluation of Brookfield Zoo's "Flying Walk" exhibit. The...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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There is a growing demand from educators and policymakers for definitions, measures, and guidelines of design that capture the qualities of making as a learning process. The articles that comprise...
DATE: March 31st, 2014
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SOUNDPRINT is requesting $901,273 over 16 months to produce a series of radio documentaries entitled Making Connections: SOUNDPRINT Explores Science and Technology, related educational outreach materials, multimedia non-broadcast applications, and...
DATES: August 1st, 1995 - November 30th, 1997
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The article discusses the significance of student's participation in a wireless, handheld field trip in the U.S. It is a program that comprises of a mix of podcasts, student multimedia...
DATE: March 1st, 2008
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Many communities across the country are developing "maker spaces," environments that combine physical fabrication equipment, social communities of people working together, and educational activities for learning how to design and...
DATES: September 1st, 2014 - August 31st, 2016
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This is a brief study of the changes in the merit review criteria for proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) over its 60-year history. Because far more worthy...
DATE: March 1st, 2010
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This article describes the Quest Atlantis (QA) project, a learning and teaching project that employs a multiuser, virtual environment to immerse children, ages 9–12, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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The worlds of business and youth-based community organizations share similar philosophies of creativity, collaboration and communication. Using research conducted at an urban youth theater program, the author demonstrates how young...
DATE: March 1st, 2000
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The Maker Movement is inspiring thousands of young people across the nation to tinker with and tackle problems involving design, engineering and programming. This report from the third Making Meaning...
DATE: May 1st, 2013
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The Museum of Science in Boston will develop exhibits and programs for visitors to use models as tools for understanding the world around them. It is the 4th stage of...
DATES: May 1st, 2000 - March 31st, 2005
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Led by Washington University, Making Natural Connections: An Authentic Field Research Collaboration (DRL-0739874), is a series of two field-based informal science education programs in environmental biology targeting St. Louis area...
DATES: March 1st, 2008 - February 28th, 2013
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Poster on NSF grant DRL-0739874 (""Making Natural Connections: An Authentic Field Research Collaboration) from the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....
DATE: March 15th, 2012
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The Museum of Science in Boston proposes a major modification of its permanent New England Wildlife Zones exhibition hall in order to improve its effectiveness with visitors with impaired sight,...
DATES: March 15th, 1987 - May 31st, 1991
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Plants are essential to life on Earth and yet are often deemed invisible by the human populace. Botanic gardens are an under-researched educational context and, as such, have occupied a...
DATE: January 1st, 2007
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Since 2008, Natasha Ray, New Haven Healthy Start Consortium Coordinator and physician researchers from the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (YRWJFCSP) have partnered on a series of research...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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This white paper is the product of the CAISE Formal-Informal Partnerships Inquiry Group, which began work during a July 2008 ISE Summit organized by CAISE. Their examination of what the...
DATE: March 1st, 2010
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WGBH Educational Foundation seeks support from NSF to add a Science Unit to its Descriptive Video Service. In their original proposal they cited three objectives: to produce universally available narrative...
DATES: July 15th, 1993 - July 31st, 1995
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Constructing scientific explanations and participating in argumentative discourse are seen as essential practices of scientific inquiry (e.g., R. Driver, P. Newton, & J. Osborne, 2000). In this paper, we identify...
DATE: January 1st, 2009
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WGBH and the Materials Research Society (MRS) collaborated to create Making Stuff, a multi-faceted project about the all-encompassing role that materials play in shaping our lives. The project included a...
DATE: September 1st, 2011
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This article discusses the value and process of effective front-end evaluation. The article examines when and how museums should conduct front-end studies to inform the development of exhibits....
DATE: January 1st, 1998
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The website informalscience.org hosts an archived evaluation reports, most of them from NSF-funded projects. Although NSF strongly suggests that projects upload their summative evaluation reports, not all projects comply. Of...
DATE: July 12th, 2011
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This fact sheet presents information on the benefits of out-of-school programs and some of the issues surrounding them, including the need for professional development for practitioners and the importance of...
DATE: January 1st, 2009
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Despite the potential of augmented reality (AR) in enabling students to construct new understanding, little is known about how the processes and interactions with the multimedia lead to increased learning....
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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In this article, evaluator Randi Korn of Randi Korn & Associates explains how to know when the time is right for front-end evaluation and whether your questions are the ones...
DATE: September 1st, 2003
