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This short video entitled "Urban Science for the Hip-Hop Generation: The Documentary" provides an overview of a research program led by Chris Emdin of Teacher's College in NYC. Professor Emdin...

This video presents reflections on SCIENCES: Supporting a Community’s Informal Education Needs—Confidence and Empowerment in STEM. SCIENCES brought together Eden Place Nature Center and the Chicago Zoological Society to collaboratively...

The videogames industry has been flourishing. In 2010 in America alone, total consumer spending on the games industry totaled $25.1 billion (Siwek, 2010), surpassing both the music industry ($15.0 billion)...

Based upon the findings of hundreds of long-term interviews with museum visitors, Falk observes that museum visits generate complex, personally rich meanings for people. He hypothesizes that visitors have a...

Probes personal beliefs about the nature of science within 3 scientific dimensions (structure, methodology, and validity of science) and learning science within 3 cognitive dimensions (learnability, reflective thinking, and personal...

The VOSI questionnaire elicits details of learners’ ideas of what scientists do in the production of valid scientific knowledge. Understanding about scientific inquiry is an integral component of scientific literacy,...

The Views on Science and Education Questionnaire (VOSE) was designed to assess attitudes towards and knowledge of the “nature of science,”(NOS) as well as the teaching practices related to NOS....

"Monitors" students' views concerning the epistemological, social & technological aspects of science....

The Peninsula Nature and Science Center (PNSC) in Newport News, Virginia, has been serving the informal science education needs of the Virginia Peninsula region for the past 17 years. As...

The Virginia Master Naturalist program is a corps of well-trained volunteers conducting natural resource education, citizen science, and stewardship projects in their communities for the Commonwealth of Virginia....

Glaciers around the world are undergoing dramatic changes. Many people, however, have a limited understanding of the scope of these changes because they are geographically distant and difficult to visualize....

Virtual Missions and Exoplanets (vMAX) will develop and test a three-dimensional, virtual world environment that will engage middle school students and educators from high-poverty schools in NASA-related exoplanet mission simulations....

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program supports a range of projects within the field of informal science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The current NSF AISL Program Solicitation #17-573 is a three-year solicitation covering 2017, 2018, and 2019. Proposals for the next round of funding are due on Wednesday ... Read more

Next month, CAISE will be Tweeting from the Citizen Science Association (CSA) conference and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. Follow us on Twitter (@informalscience), and Like us on Facebook, for more updates. The Citizen Science Association’s first conference will take place from February 11-12, 2015, in San Jose, California ... Read more

This guide compiles lessons learned by seven Portal to the Public Network (PoPNet) sites as well as remaining challenges and recommendations for organizations planning similar efforts in the future. PoPNet...

Face-to-face conversations between scientists and public audiences in an informal learning environment provide a valuable opportunity to support public engagement with scientific research. These types of experiences have significant benefits...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will create "Virtual Stowaway," a website designed to be a segment of the WHOI web series "Dive and Discover." Based upon NSF OCE-0002540, a...

The discussion on the state of the art of scientific publications in Latin American countries generally restricts itself to its supposedly low visibility. This affirmation is generally conditioned to the...

This traveling exhibit was developed in collaboration with the American Library Association and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. It consists of six two-sided panels that include images and captions that highlight...

Welcome to Albuquerque! We invite you to visit CAISE at our booth (#424 in the Exhibit Hall). Our staff will have several computers set up with InformalScience.org to field questions about the scope of available resources, searching resources, and participating in our online community. We also will be gathering feedback about the interface and noting ... Read more

The Association of Science-Technology Centers 2017 Annual Conference will be taking place October 21-24, 2017 in San Jose, CA. Join CAISE for concurrent sessions on Broadening Participation in STEM and on current and potential synergies between informal STEM education and science communication. CAISE will also be participating in the poster session, where staff and co-PIs ... Read more

Many climate scientists find themselves confronted with the challenge of purportedly “knowing better” — while this is a valid claim with respect to a small segment of reality, namely their...

Constructivist education theory postulates (Fosnot, 1996; Hein, 1998) that visitors learn actively and create their own meanings as they interact with the world. This raises challenges for visitor studies, since...

In this article, Randi Korn discusses methods and key findings from a study that evaluated the Japanese Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden. The study evaluated which exhibit objects attracted...

This article presents findings from a study that employed visitor surveys and observations to assess the factors that significantly influence visitor behavior and viewing time in six zoo exhibits with...