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  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: STEM Ambassador Program
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    This is the STEM Ambassador Program poster presented at 2019 NSF AISL PI Meeting. The STEM Ambassador Program guides scientists to engage outside traditional informal STEM education (ISE) venues to connect to those who cannot or do not access science in traditional ways. ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster - Teaching Together: Engaging Parents and Preschoolers in STEM Activities & Academic Conversations
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    This poster was presented at the 2019 NSF AISL Principal Investigators Meeting. The project's goals were to: Use a series of 6 museum-facilitated family workshops at pre-kindergarten (pre-k) centers to promote informal STEM learning. Examine 3 conditions in which families and their children most benefit from “doing science and math” together. ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Can theatrical games improve museum visitors’ understanding of complex topics requiring conceptual shifts?
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    This was the poster displayed at the NSF AISL PI Conference in Alexandria, VA, in February of 2019. Other materials included draft scripts, suggested findings, and VISTA props and stickers that are part of the game/show. ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: U!Scientist
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    U!Scientist is an in-gallery touch table adaptation of the popular online citizen science project Galaxy Zoo. Taking advantage of the social opportunities in a museum setting, the project aims not only to enhance visitors’ science self-efficacy but also to encourage visitors to discuss their choices with friends and family. This poster was ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Signing Glossaries for Science Exhibits
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    The Signing Glossaries are six new apps researched and developed for families with at least one member who is deaf and hard of hearing. Each glossary provides access to thousands of signed terms and definitions encountered in visits to aquariums, botanical gardens, natural history museums, nature centers, science museums, and zoos. Deaf and hard ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Child Trends News Service: Advancing Social Science Knowledge to Benefit Hispanic Families
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    The Child Trends News Service (CTNS) was created to report on new research about child development, and broaden the public’s access to information that can inform their parenting decisions. CTNS features this new research and research-based parenting practices in video news reports in both English and Spanish. While CTNS reporting is relevant to ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Dinosaurs of Antarctica
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    Antarctic Dinosaurs: A Giant Screen Film and Outreach Project aims to leverage the popularity and charisma of dinosaurs to draw museum audiences into a captivating educational journey, revealing the history and transformation of Antarctica and the planet’s polar ecosystems, and exploring the forces that continue to shape the continent. In addition ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: RACE FORWARD
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    Poster shared at the 2019 AISL PI Meeting to share our key question: as we work with various theories, models, and practices, how can these be made most useful to possible users of the information? ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster - STAR Library Network (STAR Net) Phase 2
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    Building the capacity of public libraries and library staff to deliver engaging, inspirational, and educational STEM programs has the potential to transform the STEM education landscape across the country. What started in libraries some years ago as independent experiments in STEM programming has become a national STEM movement. STAR Library ... »
  • 2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Tinkering Reflection and Engineering Learning
    Date: 02/11/2019
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    This poster was created for the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program Primary Investigator (PI) meeting. The research presented here is a summary of the various informal STEM learning opportunities offered as part of the collaboration between university researchers and museum practionners. We were interested in how museums can advance ... »

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