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TERC Inc. will conduct a one-year proof of concept study that includes the design, development, and research of two prototype science activities for the virtual Blue Mars Science Center located...
DATES: August 15th, 2009 - August 13th, 2009
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This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).
Despite the rich scientific evidence of adaptations and their evolutionary basis,...
DATES: October 1st, 2021 - September 30th, 2024
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Science and activism are terms which are usually seen as quite separate. Yet, they are inextricably linked, even more so as techno scientific progress permeates contemporary society. The five commentaries...
DATE: June 11th, 2015
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The California Museum of Science and Industry (CMSI) will develop a new exhibit "Body in Balance: Developing Integrative Life Science Exhibits." This will be a 3000 sq. ft. component in...
DATES: September 15th, 1996 - August 31st, 2000
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This report reviews the findings from The Botany of Desire summative evaluation as supported by the responses of the adult audience that viewed and gave feedback on the PBS version...
DATE: November 1st, 2010
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Kikim Media requests $743,316 to produce four half-hour television documentaries and associated outreach programs based on Michael Pollan's best-selling book, The Botany of Desire. The project explores the reciprocal nature...
DATES: September 1st, 2003 - August 31st, 2010
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The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, PA requests NSF support for a 5000 sf traveling exhibit on The Human Brain that is being developed for the Science Museum Exhibit...
DATES: July 15th, 1991 - December 31st, 1993
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Massachusetts General Hospital, representing Partners HealthCare System, Inc., is producing a large format film on the brain that is designed to increase the popular understanding of brain biology and recent...
DATES: September 10th, 2002 - August 31st, 2006
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This study was designed to contribute to a small but growing body of knowledge on the influence of gender in technology-rich collaborative learning environments. The study examined middle school students’...
DATE: December 1st, 2004
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This coding framework was developed to categorize the evaluation reports on informalscience.org. Coding categories and related codes were created to align with key features of evaluation reports and the potential...
DATE: March 1st, 2014
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"The Business of Museums" was presented by Mac West at the 2006 IAAPA. It examines the evolution of museum business models....
DATE: January 1st, 2006
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The Association of Science and Technology Centers, a Washington, D.C.-based membership organization, is home to the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education, a National Science Foundation-funded center that houses...
DATE: August 1st, 2014
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This article describes the goals and methodology of the Field Museum in Chicago's Calumet Environmental Education Program (CEEP) in the Calumet region of southeast Chicago. The program engages students grades...
DATE: June 9th, 2010
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For the past thirty years, The National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST), Trinidad and Tobago, has been a pioneering force in science popularization both locally and...
DATE: December 19th, 2014
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These conference proceedings summarize work done by the CAISE Inquiry Groups and include presentations from NSF Program Officer Al DeSena and CAISE Co-PI John Falk (Introduction), Falk and Carlos Manjerrez...
DATE: March 4th, 2010
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Our complex and changing world demands an adaptable workforce that is prepared to collaboratively reason through tough problems and come up with creative solutions to the challenges of tomorrow. STEM...
DATE: April 27th, 2016
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College students (in Experiment 1) and 7th-grade students (in Experiment 2) learned how to design the roots, stem, and leaves of plants to survive in 8 different environments through a...
DATE: January 1st, 2001
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At the CSMC, we have three main goals for our Outreach and Education activities, and we do our best to accomplish all three goals with all of our programs and...
DATES: September 15th, 2011 - August 31st, 2016
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In this paper, we take an in-depth look at the physics faculty and student volunteers, which we will refer to as the program personnel, involved in informal physics programs to...
DATE: October 1st, 2022
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Many science communication activities identify children as their main target. There are several reasons for this, even if, quite often, they are not expressed explicitly, as if children were a...
DATE: December 11th, 2013
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The climate change issue has become increasingly present in our society in the last decade and central also to communication studies. In the e-book “Communicating Climate Change: Discourses, Mediations and...
DATE: June 19th, 2009
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The Change (working title) is a film project with supporting website and resource materials to document how climate change is impacting indigenous peoples in the most climate sensitive regions, and...
DATES: August 15th, 2011 - July 31st, 2013
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Presentation on NSF grant DRL-1114686 (""The Change"") presented at the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th, 2012....
DATE: February 6th, 2012
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The Field Museum of Natural History will present “Changing Face of Science,” an exhibition series targeting pre-teens and teenagers and featuring Field Museum scientists and science educators who are women...
DATES: September 1st, 2021 - August 31st, 2024
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The amount of OST programming available has increased significantly in the last decade—but are enough programs available in the right places, and are children realizing the potential benefits of participation?...
DATE: October 1st, 2010
