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The Girls STEAM Ahead with NASA program, part of NASA’s Universe of Learning, provides resources and experiences that enable youth, families, and lifelong learners to explore fundamental questions in astrophysics, experience how science is done, and discover the universe for themselves. Join NGCP for this exciting webinar to hear directly from this year’s 2023 GSAWN stipend ...
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DATE: June 14th, 2023
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This paper explores how science-aspiring girls balance their aspirations and achievement with societal expectations of femininity. In-depth interviews revealed two models that the girls tended to follow, termed feminine scientist...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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The Girls RISEnet project convened an international community to explore the role of science centers in issues of gender equity in STEM learning. This effort resulted in two major products,...
DATE: August 1st, 2013
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In support of a summative evaluation of SciGirls Season Three, Multimedia Research developed a scale to assess preteen girls’ interest in nature and science. The work was sponsored by Twin...
DATE: December 3rd, 2015
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Challenge seeking is an important component of children’s personal and academic development. Defined in this paper as a set of beliefs and behaviors that propels individuals to initiate and persist...
DATE: April 1st, 2015
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This article examines middle school girls’ participation in school-day science classes and out-of-school time science clubs to understand the girls’ identification with and relationship to science. Looking at the girls’...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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Girlstart will implement a comprehensive suite of informal STEM education programs that directly reach 2,500 4th-8th grade girls and their parents. This project will increase interest in and understanding of STEM disciplines...
DATES: September 1st, 2012 - August 31st, 2016
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The discovery of a class of galaxies called Green Peas provides an example of scientific work done by volunteers. This unique situation arose out of a science crowdsourcing website called...
DATE: May 20th, 2016
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The Global Access Fund (GAF) was established to enable communities worldwide to make their research outputs discoverable. It will provide financial support for both outreach activities and infrastructure development to enable organizations in regions and communities currently underrepresented in the global open science infrastructure landscape to benefit from DataCite infrastructure services. The GAF is part ...
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DATE: September 6th, 2023
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Global Climate Change as Seen by Latin American Zoo Visitors reports on the findings of a summer 2011 survey conducted at eight Latin American zoos in five countries. The study...
DATE: May 1st, 2012
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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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The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery/Discovery Zoo in Dayton, OH has developed and implemented a new, permanent exhibition featuring NOAA's Science on a Sphere. The exhibition builds environmental literacy among public...
DATES: October 1st, 2008 - October 31st, 2009
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The Global Garlic Mustard Field Survey is a collaboration of scientists, students, conservationists, resource managers and 'amateur' scientists. Our goal is to collect high-quality data on the abundance and distribution...
DATES: January 1st, 2009 - January 1st, 2009
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Positive youth development and youth organizing are strengths-based approaches to the lives, needs, and contributions of young people (Damon & Gregory, 2003). These approaches privilege the voices of youth as...
DATE: April 1st, 2015
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Supported by the National Science Foundation, the Global Soundscapes! Big Data, Big Screens, Open Ears project employs a variety of informal learning experiences to present the physics of sound and...
DATE: June 11th, 2017
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The American Museum of Natural History and the Environmental Defense Fund will produce a major exhibition on global warming. The prospect of global warming is viewed by many with increasing...
DATES: August 1st, 1991 - January 31st, 1994
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The Association of Science-Technology Centers, in partnership with the Franklin Institute Science Museum, requests $360,523 from the National Science Foundation in support of a major hands-on traveling exhibition about global...
DATES: August 15th, 1990 - November 30th, 1994
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GLOBAL WARMING: UNDERSTANDING THE FORECAST. American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY (May 15, 1992 - January 19, 1993); Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County (April 3...
DATE: October 1st, 1992
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Using an instrument developed by the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, The Science Museum of Minnesota conducted a survey of...
DATE: January 1st, 2011
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This project, “Global, Local, Coastal”, will be led by Groundwork Hudson Valley and Sarah Lawrence College, to integrate and expand the work of three award-winning environmental education centers in Yonkers,...
DATES: October 1st, 2015 - October 31st, 2017
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What are the effects of globalization and how are these manifested in local communities and in the learning of science there? These questions are unpacked within one local community in...
DATE: April 1st, 2008
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Are you looking for ways to engage your community in solar eclipses coming to North America in 2023 or 2024? NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NASEC) is seeking library partners to involve their patrons in a NASA citizen science project that will contribute to understanding of what happens on Earth when the Sun’s light is ...
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DATE: May 11th, 2023
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In the project entitled "The GLOBE Program 2010: Collaborative Environmental Research at Local to Global Scales," the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) will improve the functionality of the GLOBE...
DATES: October 1st, 2010 - October 31st, 2011
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This is a glossary of key terms related to the field of visitor studies and evaluation....
DATE: January 1st, 1988
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Because the NISE Network bridges the cultures of museums and the academic research world, participants from one profession may not always know the lingo of the other. At the same...
DATE: January 1st, 2005