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This is a Broad Implementation proposal. Our goal is to create a vibrant, sustained community of practice around the established Café Scientifique New Mexico model for engaging high school teens...
DATES: October 1st, 2012 - September 30th, 2017
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This paper describes the development of a Female-Responsive Design Framework for Informal Science Education (ISE). The FRD Framework translates ideas from Culturally Responsive Pedagogy to discover and recommend pedagogical strategies...
DATE: July 15th, 2018
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In the recent exhibition project Animal Secrets, we looked at the impact of three strategies for fostering parent-child interactions in an exhibition for young children: environmental design, types of activities,...
DATE: April 13th, 2009
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EDC and the Lawrence Hall of Science propose an intensive, innovative mentoring and professional development model that will build the capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) to deliver high-quality science and...
DATES: September 1st, 2005 - August 31st, 2012
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A team of researchers and practitioners developed a museum program to coach families in the skills of scientific inquiry at interactive exhibits. The program was inspired by the increasing focus...
DATE: July 1st, 2009
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Perot Museum of Nature and Science will expand its museum-based professional development offerings for Dallas-area teachers by launching, testing, and evaluating a scalable Perot Museum STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and...
DATES: October 1st, 2014 - September 30th, 2016
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The article discusses the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Information, Technology and Scientific Literacy (STEM-ALL) for ALl Learners project of Emporia State University, Kansas. The project is an interdisciplinary program...
DATE: May 1st, 2014
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The Florida Aquarium will create a Gulf-focused seafood education program that will deliver current information on seafood choices that help ensure abundant future populations of fish. The aquarium will form...
DATES: October 1st, 2014 - September 30th, 2016
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In the 1990s, Science Cafes emerged that brought together people from all walks of life with scientists in conversation over science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics. The cafes were...
DATES: September 1st, 2020 - August 31st, 2025
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Public gardens and other facilities with living collections have policies that advocate for diversity, equity, access, inclusion, justice and belonging (DEAI+) but what do these policies look like in practice...
DATE: June 26th, 2024
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Massachusetts Audubon Society will create a manual intended to be used by other organizations to create educational, reflective, self-guided nature trail experiences designed for individuals who require accessibility accommodations. To...
DATES: October 1st, 2014 - September 30th, 2015
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Children thrive individually when they feel part of a group. Thus every youth organization must intentionally create an agency culture that promotes positive values and relationships. Using social group work...
DATE: March 1st, 2000
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This one-year Collaborative Planning project seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary planning team of informal and formal STEM educators, researchers, scientists, community, and policy experts to identify the elements, activities,...
DATES: May 1st, 2017 - August 31st, 2018
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This one-year Collaborative Planning project seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary planning team of informal and formal STEM educators, researchers, scientists, community, and policy experts to identify the elements, activities,...
DATES: September 1st, 2016 - August 31st, 2017
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The Museum of Life and Science will use this planning grant to bring together zoo, botanical garden, and science center professionals to a) assess the feasibility of an "interactive zoo,"...
DATES: June 15th, 1994 - August 31st, 1995
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In this article, Donna M. McElroy, education curator at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center (Pueblo, Colorado), discusses evaluation strategies and key findings used to create and improve a self-guide...
DATE: January 1st, 1989
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Cross-national assessments of student learning in mathematics, science, reading, computer technology, and civics have been successfully conducted since the 1960’s. Each subject required professional researchers and educators from different cultural...
DATE: May 15th, 2012
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Poster on NSF grant DRL-1113648 (""Creating Communities of Learners for Informal Cognitive Science Education"") presented at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting....
DATE: March 15th, 2012
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Pairing age-appropriate novels with thematic units on the civil rights movement and the presidential election allows one afterschool practitioner to bring democracy to life for inner-city middle school students....
DATE: March 1st, 2006
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Guglielmo Maglio is Manager of Exhibitions at the science centre “Città della Scienza” of Naples. With “Città della Scienza” he took part in the creation of “Decide”, which he appreciates...
DATE: June 26th, 2010
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According to the Harvard Family Research Project (2010), schools need collaborative partners to help children and youth thrive. For over a decade, afterschool programs have been positioning themselves as viable...
DATE: November 21st, 2016
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The middle grades are a crucial time for girls in making decisions about how or if they want to follow science trajectories. In this article, the authors report on how...
DATE: January 1st, 2008
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Artists have used the environment as a subject forever and there is a long history of artists whose works affect peoples’ awareness of and perceptions of their natural environments. But...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
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Watching a long unedited video is usually a boring experience. In this paper we examine a particular subset of videos, tour videos, in which the video is captured by walking...
DATE: October 19th, 2008
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Pull up a chair to learn about Middle Ground, a facilitated exhibition project that stands at the intersection of social science, social justice, place-making and research on informal learning. We’ll describe...
DATE: October 21st, 2020
