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In this article, Lynne M. Westphal of the USDA Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station, outlines discussions exploring the interactions between plant communities and people communities at a November...
DATE: January 1st, 1993
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Plants Are Up To Something (aka Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education: Huntington Conservatory for Botanical Science) is a 16,000 square-foot exhibition full of spectacular plants and interactive exhibits. The Huntington...
DATES: September 15th, 2002 - August 31st, 2009
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Plants of Concern is a citizen science-based rare plant monitoring program in the Chicago Region. Developed in 2001, it how has collected long-term census data on 205 species at 245...
DATES: January 1st, 2001 - January 1st, 2001
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Main findings and Points of Interest Both Burke visitors and members found "Life Before Plastics" to be the MOST interesting exhibit topic area. This was in part due to a...
DATE: July 1st, 2011
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This summative evaluation study examines visitors' experiences of the "Plastics Unwrapped" exhibit at the Burke Museum of Natural History, Seattle, WA. The exhibit explores the complicated legacy of plastic, and...
DATE: June 24th, 2013
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In this article, Paul Katz, Ph.D., Curator of the Texas Pharmacy Museum and partner in the PRIAM consulting firm, discusses the development of the "Playas...Gems of the Plains" traveling exhibit,...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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The "Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Institute" is a three-year project to increase the capacity of museum educators and exhibitors to design and implement technology-integrated inquiry activities for the public....
DATES: April 1st, 2005 - March 31st, 2010
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This article presents an overview of what we know about two perspectives, coined instructionist and constructionist, to games for learning. The instructionists, accustomed to thinking in terms of making instructional...
DATE: January 1st, 2006
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Research in experimental and developmental psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience, suggests that tool fluency depends on the merging of perceptual and motor aspects of its use, an achievement we call...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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The Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) contracted Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to conduct a summative evaluation of Playing with Time, a traveling exhibition funded by the National Science...
DATE: December 1st, 2002
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The University of Cincinnati Arlitt Child and Family Research and Education will conduct a two-year research investigation to document and understand young children's scientific dialog, interactions, behaviors, and thinking within...
DATES: October 1st, 2011 - September 30th, 2013
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Playtime Is Science: A National Model for Parent Involvement In Early Science Education is an innovative parent/child science activity program. The overall goal of the model is to enlarge the...
DATES: September 1st, 1992 - February 29th, 1996
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Children feed alphabet letters to a talking baby dragon, drive a New York City fire truck, paint on a six-foot art wall, and crawl through a challenge course in PlayWorks™...
DATES: September 21st, 2006 - September 21st, 2006
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This project proposes using three complementary strategies to engage, inform and inspire large audiences. (1) A national tour called "Stories from a Changing Planet" that will include in-person presentations and...
DATES: November 1st, 2006 - October 31st, 2009
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In the spring of 1999, the Board of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) established an Informal Science Education Ad Hoc committee, co-chaired by Lynn Dierking and...
DATE: February 1st, 2003
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Portal to the Public is a program designed to assist informal science education (ISE) institutions as they seek to bring scientists and public audiences together in face-to-face public interactions that...
DATES: July 15th, 2007 - June 30th, 2012
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0639021 (""Portal to the Public"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Professional Development and Informal Science Education, February 2nd, 2012....
DATE: February 2nd, 2012
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Portal to the Public (PoP) is a proven, scalable guiding framework for Informal Science Educators (ISE) to engage scientists and public audiences in face-to-face interactions that promote appreciation and understanding...
DATE: November 16th, 2011
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The First Synthesis Meeting was held in January 2008, at the front end of the Portal to the Public grant period. For this meeting, forty-three experts, stakeholders and members of...
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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Science museums play a role in creating visitor experiences that relate to contemporary issues in science, and in linking audiences to the scientific enterprise and the community of scientists. In...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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In both formal and informal settings, not only science but also views on the nature of science are communicated. Although there probably is no singular nature shared by all fields...
DATE: November 1st, 2011
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The 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), a longitudinal investigation of a diverse sample of 1,700 fifth graders and 1,117 of their parents, tests developmental contextual ideas linking PYD,...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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It is presented some considerations related to the role of cinema to introduce and contextualize issues as the image of science and scientists and how science works. Cinema can be...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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This is a brief summary of a 1981 paper in the "Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association" that defines post-occupancy evaluations as multifaceted alternative to exhibit evaluation....
DATE: January 1st, 1987
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This is a brief summary of a 1986 article entitled "A Process Description of Literature Evaluation, Walkthrough Post-Occupancy Evaluations, A Generic Program and Design for the City of Albuquerque," by...
DATE: May 1st, 1987
