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Date: 09/15/2017
Resource Category: Project Descriptions
Physical science and engineering remain the least diverse of all STEM fields---with regard to women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities---across all levels of STEM education and training. SCI-STEPS is an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot that will address this persistent challenge by developing a complete end ... »
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Date: 06/22/2016
Resource Category: Mass Media Article
A short outline of the evolution of communications at CERN since 1993 and the parallel growth of the need both for professional communications and, at the same time, the need for training in more and more complex competencies for the new profession. ... »
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Date: 10/01/2015
Resource Category: Project Descriptions
Research shows that participation and interest in science starts to drop as youth enter high school. This is also the point when science becomes more complex and there is increased need for content knowledge, mathematics capability, and computer or computational knowledge. Evidence suggests that youth who participate in original scientific ... »
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Date: 01/01/2015
Resource Category: Project Descriptions
Flying Higher will develop a permanent hands-on exhibit that conveys the fundamentals of flight, technology, materials science, and NASA’s role in aeronautics for learners ages 3-12 years and their parents/caregivers and teachers. The exhibit, public programs, school and teacher programs, and teacher professional development will develop a ... »
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Date: 09/01/2011
Resource Category: Project Descriptions
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), in collaboration with New York University's Institute for Education and Social Policy and the University of Southern Maine Center for Evaluation and Policy, will develop and evaluate a new teacher education program model to prepare science teachers through a partnership between a world class science ... »
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Date: 10/01/2009
Resource Category: Project Descriptions
We have a wide spectrum of informal programs that include museum-based programs, afterschool programs, an NSF AISL project on science identity formation in girls, observatory visitor center programs, night-based programs, programs for Native American groups, undergraduate student-based outreach programs,and professional development for informal ... »
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Date: 09/21/2009
Resource Category: Mass Media Article
Technoscience is deeply linked to national cultures across terrains as diverse as medicine, agricultural biotechnologies, ICTs, energy technologies, etc. Understanding the cultural dimension of technoscience is vital for the project of socialisation. This project should be embedded in technological and political cultures, taking variation in ... »
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Date: 03/21/2008
Resource Category: Mass Media Article
Dialogical models in science communication produce effective and satisfactory experiences, also when hard sciences (like astrophysics or cosmology) are concerned. But those efforts to reach the public can be of modest impact since the public is no longer (or not sufficiently) interested in science. The reason of this lack of interest is not that ... »
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Date: 09/01/2006
Resource Category: Mass Media Article
In this article, Cherilynn A. Morrow, an affliate of the SETI Institute and former director of education and outreach at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, discusses the success of the "Kinesthetic Astronomy" project, consisting of lessons that use choreographed bodily movements and positions to provide educational sensory ... »
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Date: 01/01/2004
Resource Category: Project Descriptions
The University of Arkansas Center for Math and Science Education (CMASE), one of eleven mathematics and science centers on university and college campuses around the state, provides quality resources and materials to the home, private and public education community. The Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center, located within CMASE, is the state's ... »