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This Spotlight is co-authored by Angela Calabrese Barton, Michigan State University, PI and Edna Tan, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, co-PI I was really proud [about making my light up football] ācause it just made me feel good about myself so I could, like, acknowledge people what I could do. ā Samuel, 12 years ...
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DATE: March 10th, 2017
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Many communities across the country are developing "maker spaces," environments that combine physical fabrication equipment, social communities of people working together, and educational activities for learning how to design and...
DATES: September 1st, 2014 - August 31st, 2016
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As part of an overall strategy to enhance learning within maker contexts in formal and informal environments, the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) and Advancing Informal STEM...
DATES: September 1st, 2016 - August 31st, 2018
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ā6 Degrees of Connectionā is an informative and memorable program that combines a one-hour Science On a SphereĀ® interactive presentation with a follow-up creative art activity ā each aspect of...
DATE: February 1st, 2017
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This is a brief study of the changes in the merit review criteria for proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) over its 60-year history. Because far more worthy...
DATE: March 1st, 2010
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This article describes the Quest Atlantis (QA) project, a learning and teaching project that employs a multiuser, virtual environment to immerse children, ages 9ā12, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies...
DATE: January 1st, 2005
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The worlds of business and youth-based community organizations share similar philosophies of creativity, collaboration and communication. Using research conducted at an urban youth theater program, the author demonstrates how young...
DATE: March 1st, 2000
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The maker movement is fundamentally changing the way educators and educational researchers envision teaching and learning. This movement contends making ā an active process of building, designing, and innovating with...
DATE: January 1st, 2015
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The Maker Movement is inspiring thousands of young people across the nation to tinker with and tackle problems involving design, engineering and programming. This report from the third Making Meaning...
DATE: May 1st, 2013
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Last October, the New York Hall of Science and Maker Education Initiative convened more than 150 informal educators, funders, learning researchers, policymakers, and leaders in the informal community for this third in a series of symposia. Building on the previous conferences, Making Meaning [M2] took a critical look at how to describe and document the ...
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DATE: November 23rd, 2015
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The Museum of Science in Boston will develop exhibits and programs for visitors to use models as tools for understanding the world around them. It is the 4th stage of...
DATES: May 1st, 2000 - March 31st, 2005
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Creating Museum Media for Everyone is an NSF-funded collaborative project of the Museum of Science, the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media, Ideum, and Audience Viewpoints, to further the science...
DATE: December 1st, 2014
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Conversations shortly after hands-on learning experiences can consolidate childrenās fleeting patterns of engagement with objects into long-lasting memories. Moreover, conversational reflection can add layers of understanding of events beyond what...
DATE: September 28th, 2018
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Poster on NSF grant DRL-0739874 (""Making Natural Connections: An Authentic Field Research Collaboration) from the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....
DATE: March 15th, 2012
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Led by Washington University, Making Natural Connections: An Authentic Field Research Collaboration (DRL-0739874), is a series of two field-based informal science education programs in environmental biology targeting St. Louis area...
DATES: March 1st, 2008 - February 28th, 2013
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The Museum of Science in Boston proposes a major modification of its permanent New England Wildlife Zones exhibition hall in order to improve its effectiveness with visitors with impaired sight,...
DATES: March 15th, 1987 - May 31st, 1991
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Plants are essential to life on Earth and yet are often deemed invisible by the human populace. Botanic gardens are an under-researched educational context and, as such, have occupied a...
DATE: January 1st, 2007
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The Prototyping Puppets project presents a craft-based prototyping project for STEM education of early middle school level students in informal learning. The project combines crafting and performing of hybrid puppets....
DATE: October 24th, 2018
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Since 2008, Natasha Ray, New Haven Healthy Start Consortium Coordinator and physician researchers from the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (YRWJFCSP) have partnered on a series of research...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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This qualitative study explores perspectives of U.S.A.-based science communication researchers and practitioners who attended a symposium focused on advancing inclusive science communication (ISC). ISC is a growing global movement that...
DATE: August 16th, 2022
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This white paper is the product of the CAISE Formal-Informal Partnerships Inquiry Group, which began work during a July 2008 ISE Summit organized by CAISE. Their examination of what the...
DATE: March 1st, 2010
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WGBH Educational Foundation seeks support from NSF to add a Science Unit to its Descriptive Video Service. In their original proposal they cited three objectives: to produce universally available narrative...
DATES: July 15th, 1993 - July 31st, 1995
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This conference presentation explores the gap between formal education and informal education, with special attention to science center pedagogy....
DATE: August 28th, 2017
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This conference presentation explores the gap between formal education and informal education, with special attention to science center pedagogy....
DATE: August 28th, 2017
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Constructing scientific explanations and participating in argumentative discourse are seen as essential practices of scientific inquiry (e.g., R. Driver, P. Newton, & J. Osborne, 2000). In this paper, we identify...
DATE: January 1st, 2009