Browse Research

Refine Your Search

Resource Type

Learning Environment

Access And Inclusion

Audience

Discipline

Content Source

Funding Source

Year

Displaying Results 1 - 10 of 4642

Students Discover Project: Partnerships and Citizen Science in North Carolina Classrooms
Date: 04/12/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

The overarching goal of the Students Discover project is to improve STEM education in middle schools by developing a model for engaging students with real science. Over the past three years, the project has brought together teachers, scientists, district leaders, and other institutional partners to facilitate the successful implementation of ... »
Numbers in Nature, Math on the Mountain: A Teacher-Scientist Partnership to Tell Stories of Place Through Data
Date: 04/12/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Data are the workhorses of the scientific endeavor and their use is rapidly evolving (Haendel, Vasilevsky, and Wirz 2012). Ask almost any scientist about their work, and the conversation will involve the data they collect and analyze. The use of data in science is often captured in science classrooms as an ill-defined link between math and science ... »
Engaging Youth in Citizen Science
Date: 04/12/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Please join us in celebrating Citizen Science Day, which falls this year on Saturday, April 14th. This issue of Connected Science Learning is dedicated to highlighting effective citizen science programs that involve classroom students in collecting data for research scientists, while also engaging them in key STEM (science, technology, engineering ... »
SciStarter
Date: 04/12/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), SciStarter 2.0 was launched to enhance, diversify, and validate participant engagement in scientific research in need of the public’s help. SciStarter’s leadership is part of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee, Designing Citizen Science to Support Science Learning, which is ... »
Support Systems for Scientists' Communication and Engagement Workshop III: Academic Institutions - Landscape Overview of University Systems and People Supporting Scientists in their Public Engagement Efforts
Date: 03/27/2018

Resource Category: Report

Scientists (and engineers) wishing to conduct public engagement do so in the context of established disciplinary norms and complex institutional systems that may support or limit their success. This report seeks to convey the known complexity, unique challenges, and opportunities for universities to better support for scientists in their public ... »
Digital Observation Technology Skills: Incorporating Modern Digital Technology Into Outdoor Experiential Education
Date: 03/14/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Digital Observation Technology Skills (DOTS) is a framework for integrating modern, mobile technology into outdoor, experiential science education. DOTS addresses longstanding tensions between modern technology and classical outdoor education by carefully selecting appropriate digital technology for educational purposes and by situating these ... »
Environmental Education and STEM (E-STEM): A Selection of Resources and Opportunities Offered by NAAEE
Date: 03/14/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

In this article, The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) shares the programs and publications it developed to advance E-STEM—the integration of environmental education into STEM. ... »
“I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This”: Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning
Date: 03/14/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Learn about how a university-based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science-focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago. ... »
Coming out in STEM: Factors affecting retention of sexual minority STEM students
Date: 03/14/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Using a national longitudinal survey data set from the Higher Education Research Institute, this study tested whether students who identified as a sexual minority (for example, lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer) were more or less likely to persist after 4 years in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, as opposed to ... »
Indigenous Instructional Programming for Camp Professionals
Date: 03/01/2018

Resource Category: Mass Media Article

This article discusses how camp professionals are taking a greater interest in the concept of allyship, a process of unlearning and re-evaluating whereby those in positions of privilege attempt to adopt a stance of solidarity with marginalized groups of people. It includes an annotated list of Indigenous Instructional Programming, which aims to ... »

Search form

Browse Research

Refine Your Search

Resource Type

Learning Environment

Access And Inclusion

Audience

Discipline

Content Source

Funding Source

Year

Pages