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The read/write web, or Web 2.0, offers ways for users to personalise their online existence, and to develop their own critical identities though their control of a range of tools....
DATE: January 1st, 2009
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Investigates home influence on science education by referring to a project in which very simple science activities were given out by the teacher at school to be performed at home...
DATE: October 1st, 1994
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In this study our goal is to conduct a "connective ethnography" that focuses on how gaming expertise spreads across a network of youth at an after-school club that simultaneously participates...
DATE: July 1st, 2007
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This poster was presented at the April 2011 workshop, Engaging and Learning for Conservation. This poster explains the meaning of phenology and describes the Nature's Notebook program that engages observers...
DATE: April 1st, 2011
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Carnegie Mellon University is developing an interactive, multimedia planetarium presentation about the human brain. The interdisciplinary project team will build upon and refine the experience gained from its recently completed...
DATES: July 1st, 1997 - June 30th, 2002
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In February 2005, randomly selected museum visitors were interviewed about their interest in and knowledge about a topic for a new exhibition under development by the Washington State Historical Society...
DATE: March 24th, 2005
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This is a USDA supported project that aims to better understand the spread of invasive plants in forested parklands that have high conservation value and high levels of public use....
DATES: January 1st, 2011 - December 31st, 2011
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In this article, Jacksonville State University's Amy Cota provides a summary of a 1993 article in "Environment and Behavior" by Hans-Joachim Klein, in which Klein analyzes visitor circulation in museums....
DATE: May 1st, 1995
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In this study, the authors consider the pros and cons of providing structures that focus inquiry at exhibits. Their research examined visitor behaviors with and without specific prompts at an...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This project was an early example of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) and was produced for the 2004 BLD Studios art exhibition, Time Machines, in Columbus, OH. This project...
DATES: January 1st, 2004 - January 1st, 2004
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The goal of the front-end studies was get a sense of what visitors believe to be the commonalities (if any) among all living things. The goal of this particular study...
DATE: August 1st, 1999
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In 1998, the Exploratorium staff submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation to develop a collection of life science exhibits "to offer science center visitors new ways to explore...
DATE: March 9th, 2004
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The Exploratorium will develop an exhibition entitled " Traits of Life: Exploratory Exhibits in the Life Sciences". There will be two versions. The first will be a 4,500 sq.-ft. exhibit...
DATES: March 15th, 1999 - February 29th, 2004
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The relevance of this study to ISE educators lies primarily in the theoretical ideas about what the researchers call “transformative experience” in science education. A transformative experience was defined as...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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After school programs are uniquely suited to encouraging the kinds of sustaining “work” that help children develop their special abilities and a sense of identity....
DATE: February 1st, 2003
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The author discusses her experiences in utilizing a sixth-grade Earth science field trip for students as an active research project. She examines a research project assignment conducted on the Sant...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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This report is the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) submitted by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to Congress. It presents five goals with recommendations for states, districts, the federal...
DATE: November 1st, 2010
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We investigated curricular and pedagogical innovations in an undergraduate science methods course for elementary education majors at the University of Maryland. The goals of the innovative elementary science methods course...
DATE: February 1st, 2011
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This project supports the development of technological fluency and understanding of STEM concepts through the implementation of design collaboratives that use eCrafting Collabs as the medium within which to work...
DATES: October 1st, 2012 - September 30th, 2015
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The University of Texas at El Paso will conduct a research project that implements and documents the impact of co-generative dialogues on youth learning and youth-scientist interactions as part of...
DATES: October 1st, 2013 - September 30th, 2017
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On February 14-15, 2013, the Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF) hosted a workshop in Washington, DC: "Transforming the Relationship between Science and Society: Interpreting the Manhattan Project." The workshop, funded by...
DATE: August 10th, 2012
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This is a report of the NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research. It contains a call to action, research priorities, and sections on environmental research and citizen science....
DATE: January 1st, 2009
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In the science education research literature, it often appears to be assumed that students "possess" more or less stable "images of science" that directly correspond to their experiences with scientific...
DATE: July 1st, 2009
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This conceptual paper explores the nexus between travel and learning; an area of investigation long neglected by tourism researchers. Using Aristotle’s concepts of phronesis, techne and episteme a framework for...
DATE: May 24th, 2011
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Travelers and Hitchhikers: Links from Land to Sea is a 5,000 sq. ft. exhibit which will be housed at the New England Aquarium, with two additional 1,200-4,800 sq. ft. modules...
DATES: July 15th, 2000 - June 30th, 2003
