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Building Broader Knowledge: Supporting Children’s Active, Outdoor Science Exploration in Urban Environments

Date: 05/06/2108

Resource Category: Report

This report looks across multiple phases of work to discuss the PLUM Rx project’s contribution to broader knowledge about supporting children’s active, outdoor science exploration in informal, urban settings. The PLUM LANDING Explore Outdoors Toolkit that resulted from this work is designed for use by outdoor prescription programs and a broad ... »
Poster: Visitor Interests and the Dynamics of Interpreter-Visitor Conversations in National Parks

Date: 07/19/2019

Resource Category: Conference Proceedings

This poster was presented at the 2018 Visitor Studies Association Conference. iSWOOP is a multi-year, multi-focus project, bringing national park-based research to visitors through innovative scientist-park ranger collaborations. As part of this study, researchers at the Institute for Learning Innovation set out to understand how visitor interests ... »
Where Informal STEM Education and Science Communication Meet: Two Studies Chart the Intersection of ISE and SciComm

Date: 01/02/2019

Resource Category: Report

*Coming in January 2019* Informal Science Education (ISE) and Science Communication (SciComm) are two overlapping but distinct fields that support engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in a variety of settings. Though fluid boundaries and fuzzy definitions make a clear distinction between ISE and SciComm difficult, the ... »
Charting the Intersection of Informal STEM Education and Science Communication: Results of a Social Network Study

Date: 01/02/2019

Resource Category: Report

*Coming in January 2019* Informal Science Education (ISE) and Science Communication (SciComm) are two overlapping but distinct fields that support engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in a variety of settings. Though fluid boundaries and fuzzy definitions make a clear distinction between ISE and SciComm difficult, the ... »
Are the Fields of Informal Science Education and Science Communication Adjacent or Connected? A Bibliometric Study of Research Journals from 2012 to 2016

Date: 01/02/2019

Resource Category: Report

*Coming in January 2019* Informal Science Education (ISE) and Science Communication (SciComm) are two overlapping but distinct fields that support engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in a variety of settings. Though fluid boundaries and fuzzy definitions make a clear distinction between ISE and SciComm difficult, the ... »
My Sky Tonight: Summative Evaluation

Date: 12/28/2018

Resource Category: Summative

This is the summative evaluation for the My Sky Tonight: Early Childhood Pathways to Astronomy is a National Science Foundation funded Full-Scale Development project that was designed to support informal science education practitioner’s ability to provide astronomy learning for young children ages 3-5 years. Based on prior research and assessment ... »
From Project Mercury to Planet Mars Summative Evaluation

Date: 12/20/2018

Resource Category: Summative

The Museum of Science, Boston led the From Project Mercury to Planet Mars: Introducing Engineering and Inspiring Youth through Humanity’s Greatest Adventure project (FPMPM) as a way to produce and share high-quality informal engineering education opportunities about the topic of human space travel to Mars. The grant involved the creation of two ... »
Collaborative Research: Effective environmental workshop facilitation and local community action

Date: 12/01/2018

Resource Category: Project Descriptions

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and ... »
Science Self-Efficacy and Lifelong Learning: Emerging Adults in Science Museums

Date: 12/01/2018

Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article

Recent research suggests that emerging adulthood—the stage between adolescence and maturity marked by a lengthy process of identity development—constitutes a window of opportunity for museums to influence adults’ lifelong science learning trajectories. The current study sought to explore the impact of a single museum visit on emerging adults’ ... »
Developing A Program Model for High School Science Research, Communication and Education Experiences in Living Laboratory

Date: 12/01/2018

Resource Category: Project Descriptions

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and ... »

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