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Radiolab is a public radio series of hour-long interdisciplinary shows, co-hosted by Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad, and produced by WNYC. To help guide the future development of shows, this...
DATE: May 19th, 2009
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In the editorial of this issue of JCOM, we underline how children are on one hand one of the main target group for science communication, and on the other hand...
DATE: November 12th, 2013
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Nature-based playgrounds—known as playscapes—offer numerous opportunities for young children to learn about nature. In the current study, we focus on teacher talk on playscapes, namely to capture the spontaneous utterances...
DATE: March 12th, 2018
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This article aims to discover evidence for the "Mozart Effect"--the observation that listening to music for brief periods temporarily enhances performance on spatial tasks....
DATE: September 1st, 2000
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Females, students of color, and students of low socioeconomic status (SES) are often underserved or marginalized in mathematics education. However, some instructional approaches and intervention programs have been shown to...
DATE: September 1st, 2007
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Listening to the River (LTTR) is a watershed science education project funded by the National Science Foundation. Its aims are to deliver education experiences in the local area, Traverse City,...
DATE: June 1st, 2010
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The Land Information Access Association seeks funds to support planning activities related to "Listening to the River," a project that will ultimately result in a new model for engaging teens...
DATES: August 15th, 2004 - July 31st, 2005
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In 2005, the Exhibit Operations Department at the Museum of Science, Boston became concerned by the number of visitor comment cards that cited frustration with broken exhibits. As a result,...
DATE: March 1st, 2006
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In this paper, Swarthmore College's Christine Massey surveys methods from other fields, particularly developmental psychology, to gain insight into how one might allow young children to be direct participants in...
DATE: January 1st, 1996
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This paper discusses the obstacles that the Philadelphia Zoo confronted when they attempted to evaluate and develop a series of interactive activity kits called "Explore-A-Zoo." The kits aimed to encourage...
DATE: January 1st, 1996
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The Exploratorium will conduct a four-year project to explore the physical nature of sound, the physiology of hearing and the perception of sound, and the process of attentive listening. "Listening"...
DATES: September 10th, 2003 - August 31st, 2007
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This is a front-end study designed to inform the team working on an NSF-funded exhibit-development project. The purpose was to determine what visitors think, know, and do in relation to...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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Each class K-8 has chosen a species of local animal to study and collect NatureMapping data. K-spiders, 1st-butterflies and moths, 2nd- birds, 3rd-insects, 4th-reptiles, 5th-wildflowers and weeds, 6th-fossorial mammals. We...
DATES: January 1st, 2008 - December 31st, 2009
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Worldwide growth in use of mobile phones has fostered the emergence of mobile learning. Mobile technologies are used both in classrooms to support instruction (safe) and as tools that significantly...
DATE: August 1st, 2010
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Students in the U.S. educational system are increasingly diverse, and this diversity is reflected in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Diversity in education encompasses students from many races,...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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Few research studies have been conducted on the interpreter’s role in a Science Centre. Although the importance of this role is always stressed by museum practitioners, it seems that anecdotal...
DATE: December 21st, 2005
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Mobile technologies are a familiar part of the lives of most teachers and students in the UK today. We take it for granted that we can talk to other people...
DATE: January 1st, 2004
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Creative Discovery Museum (CDM) will fabricate the Little Farm House Exhibit (LFHE) for children ages 0–5 in order to offer their youngest visitors age-appropriate, hands-on, STEM-focused learning opportunities. Since access...
DATES: September 1st, 2020 - February 28th, 2022
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A Mixed Methods Evaluation of an Early Childhood Informal Learning Exhibit
The present study was conducted to evaluate the dedicated early-childhood exhibit space at Creative Discovery Museum. The previous early childhood...
DATE: August 13th, 2024
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The Exploratorium requests $1,389,665 to develop "Live @ the Exploratorium: Origins." The Exploratorium will conduct a three-year pilot project to develop an experimental series of Webcasts, related Web-based resources, and...
DATES: March 1st, 2000 - February 29th, 2004
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The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) has scheduled the 2019 NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program Principal Investigators’ meeting to directly precede the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in DC next year. The PI meeting will take place February 11-13 and AAAS commences their ...
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DATE: March 22nd, 2018
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The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) has scheduled the 2019 NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program Principal Investigators’ meeting to directly precede the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in DC next year. The PI meeting will take place February 11-13 and AAAS commences their meeting with ...
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DATE: March 22nd, 2018
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WGBH is producing four, two-hour programs on the lives of scientists. These programs will be the initial programs in a continuing series of television portraits of distinguished scientists to be...
DATES: July 1st, 1999 - June 30th, 2007
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For over 200 years, American women have contributed to paleontology and our understanding of the history of life. These contributions have never received the wide recognition of those made by...
DATES: October 1st, 2014 - September 30th, 2015
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This report summarizes the results of a three-year ethnographic study, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, into how young people are living and learning with new...
DATE: December 12th, 2009