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In this paper, evaluator Randi Korn presents findings from a front-end evaluation for a traveling exhibition about severe weather, developed through a collaboration among the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service,...

Museum professionals have become increasingly interested in the behavior of their visitors--why the come, what they do while in the museum, and what they take with them from the experience....

There has been an increased push for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and scientists to be trained in science communication. Science communication researchers have outlined various models of...

The rapid spread of technologies involving the application of “Genetic Modification (GM)” raised the need for science communication on this new technology in society. To consider the communication on GM...

Research pertaining to science museum exhibit design tends to be articulated at a level of generality that makes it difficult to apply in practice. To address this issue, the present...

This Spotlight was collaboratively written by Susan Foutz, Jenni Martin, Jennifer Rehkamp, and Melissa Swank   With the leadership of the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) and the University of Washington’s Museology Graduate Program (UW), staff from ten children’s museums are working to design and implement research to benefit the field of children’s museums. Building a ... Read more

Understanding a community's concerns and informational needs is crucial to conducting and improving environmental health research and literacy initiatives. We hypothesized that analysis of community inquiries over time at a...

Increasing evidence suggests that individuals develop their understanding of science concepts in and out of school, using varied community resources and networks. Thus in contrast to historic research approaches that...

This is a Communicating Research to Public Audiences (CRPA) award that addresses the issues around the Chacoan people and their impact on the Middle San Juan region of New Mexico...

This CRPA award will provide the audience at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences with a contemporary science story about a 68 million year old dinosaur. In the research...

This article presents strategies youth development programs can use to fortify relationships and foster identity development as a way to help bolster the academic performance of girls of color....

The evaluation examined the overall visitor experience (time spent, main message comprehension, response to exhibition look and feel) in the 1,100-square-foot Animal Attraction as well as the exhibition's multimedia content...

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), with major funding from the National Science Foundation, developed the Animal Secrets exhibition for children ages 3-8 and their families. The exhibition...

The Brooklyn Children's Museum (BCM) is requesting $242,753 from the National Science Foundation to introduce a traveling version of the Museum's award-winning, interactive science exhibit, ANIMALS EAT: DIFFERENT FEASTS FOR...

The Brooklyn Children's Museum will create a 3,000 square foot natural science exhibition, "Animals Eat", that will provide interactive experiences that assist children in formulating appropriate concepts of living things....

The aim of this qualitative case study was to explore the use of stories as tools for learning within formal and informal learning environments. The design was based on three...

The Leonard Lief Library and Department of Art at Lehman College will create an Animated Information Literacy Advocate to explore the feasibility of using animation to foster information literacy in...

The Annapolis River Guardians are a group of committed volunteers who have been monitoring water quality in Nova Scotia's Annapolis River since 1992. Water samples are collected bi-weeking, spring to...

The Out-of-School Time Resource Center (OSTRC) conducted literature searches of the UPENN library databases including PsycInfo, ERIC and Professional Development Collection for articles pertaining to promising practices in professional development...

The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) contracted with Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to help determine realistic strategies and next steps for scaling up its Science in Pre-K...

NSF Resource Centers including MSPnet, CADRE, CIRCL, CAISE, STELAR, CS10K Community and ARC, invite you to participate in the second NSF Video Showcase, Advancing STEM for All: Sharing Cutting Edge Work and Community Discourse, which will feature 100 videos showcasing NSF funded, cutting edge work.  This year’s theme is broadening participation and increasing access to quality STEM and CS experiences. This is a ... Read more

We invite the larger informal STEM education and learning community to become a member of this new interest group!

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new InformalScience.org. Based on feedback from our users, the new site features a number of significant improvements, including responsive design for mobile, simplified account management, and advanced search options allowing users to explore the collection via multiple filters such as date, learning environment, contributor, and many ... Read more

The Annual Midwest Crane Count started in 1976 and currently covers 5 states. The primary purposes of the Crane Count are to help ICF monitor the abundance and distribution of...

The proposers will organize and conduct the first of what is hoped will become an Annual Symposium on Children's Science Books that will focus national attention on this important and...