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Global Climate Change as Seen by Zoo and Aquarium Visitors reports on the findings of a summer 2011 survey conducted at 15 zoos and aquariums. The study was designed to...
DATE: May 1st, 2012
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Having developed the concept of near-peer mentorship at the middle school/high school level and utilized it in a summer science education enhancement program now called Gains in the Education of...
DATES: September 30th, 2007 - August 31st, 2012
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In late 2012, COMPASS received NSF grant number 1255633, “A Workshop to Explore Building Systemic Communication Capacity for Next Generation Scientists.” Known in shorthand and on twitter as #GradSciComm, the...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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This document provides graphic representations from the NSF INCLUDES Workshop held on June 3, 2015 in Arlington, VA. The purpose of the workshop was to think about the broadening participation...
DATE: June 19th, 2015
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This book offers museum learning researchers and practitioners--educators, explainers, and exhibit developers--a new approach for fostering group inquiry at interactive science exhibits. The Juicy Question game, developed at the Exploratorium...
DATE: June 30th, 2010
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Based on nearly two decades of museum programming for low-income Hispanic and African American girls at the Miami Science Museum, this extension service project employs a train-the-trainers approach to build...
DATES: October 1st, 2009 - September 30th, 2015
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Guastavino Vaulting: Palaces for the People will be a multi-formatted project to examine the history and creative contributions of Rafael Guastavino and his family, a Spanish immigrant family of the...
DATES: October 1st, 2011 - September 30th, 2014
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The Guide to Science Centers and Museums of Latin American and the Caribbean was launched on Monday, May 25, during the XIV Congress of RedPop 2015 in Medellin, Colombia. The...
DATE: May 25th, 2015
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As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative resources for use in a variety of settings. This...
DATES: October 1st, 2015 - September 30th, 2018
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This special issue of the Association of Children's Museums publication Hand to Hand highlights the Learning Value of Children's Museums research agenda project. Articles include: "Composing a Children's Museum Field:...
DATE: April 9th, 2015
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This is a handout from the Science Learning Plus (SL+) Forum held on InformalScience.org from July 6-17, 2015. It lists and describes resources about research and practice collaborations....
DATE: July 6th, 2015
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Petrich, Wilkinson, and Bevan (2013) explore three areas of design principles related to tinkering. The authors share their thinking related to the activity design, environmental design, and facilitation practices involved...
DATE: June 1st, 2015
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Disparities in engineering participation and achievement by women and individuals from traditionally underserved racial and ethnic groups have been persistent. Approaches outside the context of university and school reform, including...
DATES: September 1st, 2015 - August 31st, 2017
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Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), in collaboration with the Hall of Health, a hands-on health museum, proposes a two year, Phase II SEPA project entitled Health and Biomedical Science...
DATES: August 1st, 2007 - July 31st, 2009
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Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), in collaboration with the Hall of Health, a hands-on health museum, proposes a three-year Phase I SEPA project entitled "Health and Biomedical Science for...
DATES: September 17th, 2004 - July 31st, 2007
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Alaska is a vast state with a widely dispersed population, lack of road access to most communities, natural barriers such as large expanses of wilderness, mountain ranges, rivers, some of...
DATES: July 16th, 2001 - June 30th, 2006
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The overall goal of this project is to further develop and test one high-potential current health science research dissemination strategy initially prototyped as part of the SEPA Phase I development...
DATES: September 30th, 2000 - August 31st, 2005
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Through the lens of cardiovascular health and wellness, The Heart of the Matter, a 5,000 square foot exhibition, will explore the science and technology that support medical efforts, advances, and...
DATES: September 30th, 2003 - September 29th, 2006
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The Kitchen Sisters will support the production of Hidden Kitchens World, a new multimedia series that explores life and culture through food across the globe. Inspired by the original NEH-funded...
DATES: October 1st, 2012 - September 30th, 2014
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The Self-Reliance Foundation (SRF) requests Phase II support from NIH for the "Hispanic Role Model and Science Education Outreach Project." The project's goal is to develop daily, nationally broadcast, Spanish-language...
DATES: September 1st, 1999 - August 31st, 2002
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Hispanic Role Models in Health Careers: Empowering Hispanic Nurses to Leverage Traditional Spanish language and New Social Media to Inspire the Next Generation of Culturally Diverse and Competent Health Care...
DATES: June 15th, 2014 - March 31st, 2019
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The Howard County Library System (HCLS), in partnership with the University of Maryland Baltimore County, will use this grant to enhance the teen digital media lab at the Savage Branch...
DATES: October 1st, 2013 - October 1st, 2015
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The field of informal science education has embraced “making” and design activities as a powerful approach to engaging learners. This chapter by Blikstein finds that in order to create disruptive...
DATE: June 1st, 2015
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What is the anatomy of an “aha” moment? How and why did we evolve to have such experiences? Can we prime ourselves to have them more often? Why should we...
DATE: July 1st, 2015
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How we communicate the dangers of climate change may influence attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. Here we test two pairs of positive and negative framing statements with North American citizen scientists...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
