Vital Signs

January 1, 1999 | Public Programs, Informal/Formal Connections

Vital Signs a community-based education program that links middle school students, citizen scientists, and scientists in the collection and analysis of environmental data related to invasive species. Vital Signs leverages technology to enable students to practice scientific inquiry, collect rigorous and consistent data, share the data and knowledge they have collected, and to serve as a distributed data collection network for the scientific community.

Project Products

http://www.gmri.org/education/vitalsigns.asp http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/projects/gmri/vitalsigns/

TEAM MEMBERS

Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Contributor

Discipline: Ecology, forestry, and agriculture | Life science | Nature of science

Audience: Middle School Children (11-13) | Adults | Educators/Teachers | Scientists

Environment Type: Public Programs | Citizen Science Programs | Informal/Formal Connections | K-12 Programs

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