Found 10697 results. Change search to: repository only or website pages only.
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
This project will create and study Kids' Survey Network as an exemplar of a new, replicable model of informal learning called an apprenticeship network. The project will develop the data...
DATES: May 1st, 2008 - April 30th, 2012
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
Kidzeum of Health and Science will partner with Springfield, Illinois School District 186 to create a two-week STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) residency for approximately 1,000 second graders...
DATES: September 1st, 2021 - August 31st, 2022
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is developing, producing and testing a pilot phase for an after school program designed to engage children 9-12 years old in...
DATES: July 10th, 2000 - December 31st, 2001
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
Kinetic City After School is a two-year project that will produce a web-based after-school program for children ages 9-11. The on-line adventure will enable users to enter a virtual universe...
DATES: September 15th, 2001 - May 31st, 2005
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
The AAAS is developing and testing a pilot phase of an on-line website science club for youth. Kinetic City Cyberclub will engage youth in episodic adventures to promote both group...
DATES: July 15th, 1996 - June 30th, 1999
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Genetic testing promises to put the ability to decide about our life choices in our hands, as well as help solve crucial health problems by preventing the insurgence of diseases....
DATE: September 21st, 2011
WEBSITE | NEWS
There is a new report, with the snazzy title Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments, that is an important resource for informal STEM education. It reframes how we conceptualize learning in informal environments, and is a must-read for those working in, or interested in our field. For example: It was universally agreed ...
Read more
DATE: November 20th, 2015
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This article adds to sociocultural theories of learning by investigating knowing and learning in the hobby of model rocketry. Hobbies are paradigmatic of interest-based, long-term pursuits and studying the tailored...
DATE: June 27th, 2013
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Knowledge building, as elaborated in this chapter, represents an attempt to refashion education in a fundamental way, so that it becomes a coherent effort to initiate students into a knowledge...
DATE: January 1st, 2006
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
In this article, Jacksonville State University's Stephen Bitgood reviews two studies that assessed knowledge gain in addition to other measures of exhibit effectiveness. These studies used tests of semantic knowledge...
DATE: January 1st, 1994
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
Knowledge of Climate Change Among Science & Technology Museum Visitors reports results from a national study of what the American public understands about how the climate system works, and the...
DATE: June 25th, 2010
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
Socially inclusive science communication has to take place where people spend most of their time — within their communities. The concept of knowledge rooms uses empty shops in socially disadvantaged...
DATE: May 6th, 2014
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
I have been involved in College education since my days as a student in the Universidad de Buenos Aires. At that time, 1960, I helped to teach the course of...
DATE: September 21st, 2005
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
As recognized by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, the human community has reached a point in which it is faced with an array of choices that will determine the...
DATE: September 21st, 2005
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
The past few decades have been marked by a rapid scientific and technological development. One of the most paradoxical, and perhaps more disturbing, features of this process is the growing...
DATE: December 21st, 2007
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This article describes an example of science engagement striving for social justice by invigorating neglected spaces. The pop-up science centre “Knowledge◦Room“ in Vienna encourages learning, participation and engagement and provides...
DATE: February 1st, 2021
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
The Koshland Youth Research Lab (Research Lab) began as an eight-month pilot program funded by the DEK Family Fund at the San Francisco Foundation. The project (initially implemented in 2011)...
DATE: March 22nd, 2012
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
KQED's QUEST is a multi-year, multiple-media project seeking to influence the Bay Area's discussions about and activities related to science, the environment, and nature, with a particularly local focus. Rockman...
DATE: December 1st, 2009
REPOSITORY | EVALUATION
For the NSF ISE QUEST Regional Hub Collaborative project, KQED's QUEST series Executive Producer Sue Ellen McCann assembled teams from six public media organizations around the country. The project was...
DATE: November 1st, 2010
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
The Kratt Brothers Company will produce a full-length pilot of Kratt Bros. Creature Team, a television/multimedia project that teaches science concepts through animated adventure stories to 6-8 year old children....
DATES: September 10th, 2007 - August 31st, 2008
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
KY-H.E.R.O.S. (Health Education Rural Outreach Scientists) is a health science education program that partners the largest science center in Kentucky with Science Heroes-- important regional biomedical research scientists. The Science...
DATES: September 30th, 2000 - August 31st, 2005
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum (TSHM) in partnership with the Texas Historic Commission (THC) is implementing the installation of the French ship La Belle (one of the most...
DATES: September 1st, 2011 - September 30th, 2015
REPOSITORY | PROJECT
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County will design and fabricate the La Brea Tar Pits Mobile Museum to provide kindergarten to 2nd grade students with hands-on, immersive experiences...
DATES: October 1st, 2019 - October 31st, 2021
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This paper describes how a universal language for notating dance and, more generally, movement was elaborated, known as "Kinetography Laban", or rather "Labanotation". It was devised by choreographer and movement...
DATE: March 21st, 2002
REPOSITORY | RESEARCH
This paper reports findings from a study at the Exploratorium of a single physics exhibit that compared three labels and assessed visitors' attitudes and behavior. Based on interviews with 60...
DATE: January 1st, 2006