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Although educators widely use school gardens for experiential education, researchers have not systematically examined the evaluative literature on school-gardening outcomes. The author reviewed the U.S. literature on childrenās gardening, taking...
DATE: November 1st, 2009
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In the Fall of 1994 The New York Botanical Garden will begin its second 100 years of commitment to science education with the opening of the Children's Adventure Garden and...
DATES: September 1st, 1993 - February 28th, 1999
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The Children's Museum is requesting $910,088 from the National Science Foundation to create an exhibition to go in an Urban Environmental Center to be built on a barge anchored in...
DATES: May 1st, 1994 - June 30th, 1997
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WGBH's newest mission is to develop the Children's Sustainability Project - a daily animated series for kids ages 8-11 that will teach the STEM concepts underlying systems and sustainability. Our...
DATES: February 1st, 2009 - January 31st, 2010
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The City as Learning Lab (CaLL) is a comprehensive research and development initiative designed to create new measures of audience impact in technology experiences; identify features of university-community collaboration that...
DATES: March 1st, 2008 - February 28th, 2014
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The Coalition for Science After School (CSAS) was established in 2004 in response to the growing need for more STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning opportunities in out-of-school time....
DATES: January 1st, 2004 - June 30th, 2014
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Community learning of science and technology has undergone radical review in the past few years. This paper outlines changes that have taken place in research methods that have addressed the...
DATE: January 1st, 2003
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Poster on NSF grant DRL-1010888 (""The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHs)"") presented at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....
DATE: March 15th, 2012
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What if every kid had access to a real workshop? Like the ones in the corners of garages across the country: a basic array of tools, bits and pieces of...
DATE: January 1st, 2007
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In response to a long-expressed focus on a museum's mission and its evaluation, this article explores an alternate model of multiple, intentional missions and purposes. While literature and theory assume...
DATE: February 11th, 2013
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The Computer Clubhouse aims to help inner-city youth gain that type of technological fluency. The Computer Clubhouse is designed to provide inner-city youth with access to new technologies. But access...
DATE: October 1st, 1998
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The Computer Museum proposes to initiate a Computer Exhibits Kits Program whose goal will be to foster a better understanding of computer science and technology among the general public. The...
DATES: August 1st, 1990 - January 31st, 1992
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"The Connecticut Museum Collaborative for Science Education" is teacher enhancement program that will serve approximately 5,000 middle school teachers (and their students) from throughout Connecticut over a three-year program period....
DATES: October 1st, 1993 - March 31st, 1998
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This study investigated the ways in which the Science Mentoring Project, an afterschool program with a youth development focus and mentoring component, helped fifth-grade participants develop key competencies in five...
DATE: March 1st, 2005
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In this article, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood discusses findings from a study that examined two aspects of the public image of visitor facilities: the expectations of what is likely...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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In this paper, Donald D. Patterson of Jacksonville State University discusses the similarities between environmental psychology and visitor studies. Patterson presents a review of the development of the two areas...
DATE: January 1st, 1990
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There is no single right way to learn things, and no single place or even moment in which we learn. All learning happens continuously, from many different sources, and in...
DATE: January 17th, 2002
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Relatively little is known about how Natural History Museums (NHMs) and schools can complement one another to maximize learning among school-age learners. Nor do we fully understand the long-term benefits...
DATES: March 1st, 2015 - March 1st, 2015
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Funding for informal science education in the United States is shifting. Federal funds once dedicated exclusively to the informal science education ļ¬eld are decreasing; competition for those funds is increasing....
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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Cosmic Serpent (NSF No. DRL-0714631 and DRL-0714629) is a professional development effort that supports collaboration with integrity between science museum professionals and Native communities and/or tribal museums. Cosmic Serpent aims...
DATE: November 1st, 2012
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In this article, Ross J. Loomis of the Colorado State University discusses the evolving field of visitor research. Loomis identifies three indicators of a presence of a field of visitor...
DATE: January 1st, 1989
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This media and research project will develop and study the use of new media, broadcast television, and social networks to introduce Citizen Science to a national audience, and motivate their...
DATES: September 1st, 2014 - August 31st, 2017
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The Cryptoclub: Cryptography and Mathematics Afterschool and Online is a five-year project designed to introduce middle school students across the country to cryptography and mathematics. Project partners include the Young...
DATES: May 15th, 2009 - April 30th, 2014
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In this article, Kirsten Bohlig, discusses a research project conducted by the Department of Sociology of the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) to study the variety of regional cultural attractions over...
DATE: January 1st, 1996
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In this article, John W. Lightner, associate professor at Lansing Community College and doctoral student at Michigan State University, discusses motivation theory. Lightner traces changes in motivation theory from the...
DATE: January 1st, 1998
