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According to this report, libraries and museums are effective but often overlooked resources in the United States' effort to turn around a crisis in early learning, exposing children to powerful...
DATE: June 11th, 2013
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We propose to develop a series of 12 exhibits on the topic of feedback. We will create an introductory cluster of 4-5 exhibits situated in our "Patterns" section to introduce...
DATES: July 1st, 1993 - June 30th, 1996
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Dance classes provide a model for afterschool and in-school education where multiple, “embodied” modes of teaching and learning enhance development and where risk-taking is rewarded rather than punished....
DATE: March 1st, 2008
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Volunteer “Grunion Greeters” experience a grunion run and witness the remarkable behavior of the silvery little fish as they come completely ashore to spawn. Volunteers monitor local California beaches and...
DATES: January 1st, 2005 - January 1st, 2005
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The Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI) conducted a study to examine the impact of an information campaign presented at the 2010 Giant-Screen Cinema Association Annual Conference and Trade Show in...
DATE: January 4th, 2011
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SciGirls is a national dissemination project, which puts resources from the PBS science series DragonflyTV into the hands of outreach professionals at PBS stations and educators in after school programs...
DATES: September 1st, 2006 - December 31st, 2008
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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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The Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Nation in Montana, as well as other Indigenous communities across the United States, disproportionally experience negative consequences from water-related environmental hazards, such as contaminated water. In...
DATES: September 1st, 2020 - August 31st, 2023
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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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Outreach activities at the interface of science and art present a unique opportunity to connect and engage with “latently interested” publics who do not otherwise take part in science activities...
DATE: February 15th, 2019
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For at-risk children who cannot attend preschool, accessing science activities depends almost entirely on parents—but many parents have limited skills for supporting such learning. PBS station WGBH has recently launched...
DATE: January 16th, 2019
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The field of citizen science is rapidly growing—just in this past year, professional associations have been launched in the United States, Europe, and Australia. As more scientists, educators, and audiences become involved, project designers may be increasingly interested in evaluating how effective their programs are at reaching outcomes like interest in science, gains in science ...
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DATE: November 23rd, 2015
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A Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) describe a new vision for science learning and teaching that is catalyzing improvements in science classrooms across the...
DATE: January 9th, 2015
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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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This is a guide to supporting a Youth Advisory Research Board, abbreviated to “YARB.” A YARB integrates two well-established methods of working with youth: Youth Advisory Boards and Youth Participatory...
DATE: June 6th, 2023
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Museums are favorite and respected resources for learning worldwide. In Israel, there are two relatively large science centers and a number of small natural history museums that are visited by...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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Guidelines for Equitably Scaling Informal STEM Programs outlines the contextual issues around scaling informal STEM programs, discusses the limitations of current frameworks for scaling, and provides six guidelines to consider...
DATE: May 18th, 2024
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A set of resources for anyone interested in equitably scaling informal STEM learning programs and curricula for program developers, implementers, researchers, evaluators, funders, and more. In 2023, the National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) and Education Development Center (EDC) collaborated with informal STEM learning practitioners to co-design Advancing the Conversation on Scaling National Informal STEM Programs, ...
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DATE: June 11th, 2024
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Environmental education is about creating healthier communities for all—with ecological integrity, shared prosperity, and social equity as our long-term goals. Environmental educators have been working in, with, and for communities...
DATE: April 28th, 2017
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This article reports on a case study of two middle school science teachers who took part in professional development designed to help them enact culturally relevant pedagogy in their classrooms....
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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This funding opportunity from the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies for Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will support proposals from academic and nonprofit institutions that implement youth leadership training programs (which may include the development of new, or expansion of existing programs) that equip youth (ages 15-24) with the knowledge, skills, and expertise necessary ...
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DATE: May 16th, 2023
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H2O Chelsea is a community-based water research and surveillance program developed collaboratively by the Municipality of Chelsea, the University of Ottawa’s Institute of the Environment and Action Chelsea for the...
DATES: January 1st, 2005 - August 26th, 2013
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This research investigated ways in which habitat dioramas contribute to visitors’ development of Sense of Place. Visitors’ responses to dioramas at the Field Museum (Chicago) and Denver Museum of Nature...
DATE: May 1st, 2013
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As part of the Oakland Museum of California’s (OMCA) Hotspot California project funded by NSF, Garibay Group conducted research investigating whether habitat dioramas contribute to visitors’ development of Sense of...
DATE: May 1st, 2014
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The Rhode Island Zoological Society will develop, prototype, install, and evaluate "Habitrek", a 3000 sq. ft. exhibit to be placed in their new Education Center. The center is a circular...
DATES: September 15th, 1996 - February 29th, 2000