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This project continues the development, testing, and use of a series of web-based computer simulations for improving the teaching and learning of physics. It expands the number of simulations in...
DATES: June 1st, 2005 - May 31st, 2009
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If you’re a Principal Investigator in the NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, please register now for the 2014 AISL PI Meeting to take place August 20th-22nd in Washington, D.C. If you’re unable to attend the meeting, you can delegate a co-PI or project manager to represent your project. More information and registration instructions ...
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DATE: November 23rd, 2015
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The article discusses a study conducted by the University of Waterloo, reported by researcher Daniela O'Neill, regarding the acquisition of knowledge by children concerning animals when a picture book is...
DATE: May 1st, 2014
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This report is the executive summary to the PIE Institute Final Evaluation Report....
DATE: October 1st, 2008
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How did industrial museums cross the Atlantic? When the first American museums of science and industry were created in the 1920s, they looked to Europe in order to import what...
DATE: October 25th, 2016
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The planning project will design pilot educational exhibits for an informal education center, the "World Learning Center," located in the Presidio National Park at San Francisco. The exhibits will be...
DATES: September 1st, 2001 - June 30th, 2003
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This article discusses an evaluation study led by a design team for the new Technology Museum of Thessaloniki in Greece. They investigated the wishes, interests, preferences and needs of certain...
DATE: May 1st, 2001
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Pipeline for Remote Sensing Education and Application (PRSEA), will increase awareness, knowledge and understanding of remote sensing technologies and associated disciplines, and their relevance to NASA, through a combination of...
DATES: February 1st, 2014 - January 31st, 2019
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Recruiting more research scientists from rural Appalachia is essential for reducing the critical public health disparities found in this region. As a designated medically underserved area, the people of Appalachia...
DATES: May 13th, 2015 - February 29th, 2020
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Historic art objects provide a collection of materials that have been naturally aged for decades or even centuries. In addition to the intrinsic archival value of these materials, they are...
DATES: July 26th, 2020 - July 26th, 2020
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0840230 (""Communities of Learning for Urban Environments"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Organizational Networks, November 17th, 2011....
DATE: November 17th, 2011
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The ethnography presented by van Eijck and Roth focuses on the activities of people involved in a government funded internship program in conservation and restoration, which was offered by a...
DATE: December 1st, 2010
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Through a critical ethnography, Birmingham and Calabrese Barton examined why and how a group of six middle school girls took civic action, defined as “educated action in science,” after studying...
DATE: January 1st, 2014
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This is a supplement to an article on place-based learning that appeared in the May/June 2016 issue of Dimensions magazine.
In a green park just beyond historic Old Town Fort Collins...
DATE: May 31st, 2016
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Building on their successful traveling exhibition and Web site, "Invention at Play," funded by the NSF Informal Science Education Program, the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and...
DATES: September 15th, 2010 - August 31st, 2014
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The Rochester Museum and Science Center and partners will plan, design, fabricate, and evaluate its new Water Worlds exhibition using a hybrid exhibition model that integrates hands-on science and interactive...
DATES: September 1st, 2020 - August 31st, 2023
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Through the Planet Earth Decision Theater project, the Science Museum of Minnesota and its partners will upgrade the museums current SOS exhibit with new SOS learning experiences, produce for the...
DATES: October 1st, 2010 - October 31st, 2011
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The Planet Earth Decision Theater (PEDT), funded by NOAA (grant # NA10SEC0080021), will be a major component of the Future Earth exhibition, which opens at the Science Museum of Minnesota...
DATE: September 1st, 2011
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Planet Earth Decision Theater (PEDT) is a NOAA-funded project for Science on a Sphere (SOS) about the impact that humans have on the planet (grant #NA10SEC0080021). Survey data for this...
DATE: January 1st, 2012
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In 2010, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) an Environmental Literacy Grant for Science Education. Over the course of four years, SMM’s Planet...
DATE: January 26th, 2015
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Over the last decade, hundreds of planetariums worldwide have adopted digital “fulldome” projection as their primary projection and presentation medium. This trend has far-reaching potential for science centers. Digital planetarium...
DATE: July 1st, 2011
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Technology has dramatically changed learning opportunities in planetaria. In this paper, Plummer and Small examine planetarium professionals’ goals for their audiences and their pedagogical choices. The findings indicate that planetarium...
DATE: January 1st, 2015
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The participation in a single planetarium program that incorporated kinesthetic learning techniques improved students’ understanding of celestial motion. Even though this study is focused on astronomy and planetariums, it is...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This Knowledge Base article was written collaboratively with contributions from Jennifer Borland and Lily Racine-Bouchard. This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Overview Planetaria offer opportunities for a variety of immersive learning experiences in the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics. They typically ...
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DATE: January 25th, 2017
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This planning grant seeks funding for demonstrating proof of concept for the proposed traveling exhibition "Inside Phoebe's Field." It is an outgrowth of the prior NSF project (9979287) that resulted...
DATES: January 1st, 2005 - June 30th, 2006