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Parents Involved/Pigeons Everywhere Project (PIPE)

July 10, 1998 - February 28, 2002 | Public Programs, Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
The Parents Involved/Pigeons Everywhere (PIPE) project is a collaboration between KCTE-Community Television of Southern California, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. They are developing a three-year model project to engage parents in science education with their children through Project PigeonWatch, a citizen-science program run by Cornell University. The PIPE project will develop videos and written materials for use in a series of parent workshops designed for libraries and community science centers. The materials and workshops will be targeted to low-income parents with children in grades three through five and will be tested at 27 pilot sites around the country. A PIPE leader's Web Site will link all of the pilot sites. At the end of the pilot stage, the video and print materials will be widely available and the applicants will produce a publication that indicates strategies for using and building on PIPE and will provide assistance to new sites that wish to implement the program.

Funders

NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 9802248
Funding Amount: 1428155

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Cynthia Ruiz
    Principal Investigator
    KCET/Community Television of Southern California
  • David Crippens
    Former Principal Investigator
    KCET/Community Television of Southern California
  • Judy Kass
    Co-Principal Investigator
    American Association For Advancement Science
  • 2014 04 25 Bonney Rick
    Co-Principal Investigator
    Cornell University
  • Discipline: Education and learning science | Life science
    Audience: Parents/Caregivers | Elementary School Children (6-10) | Museum/ISE Professionals
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Citizen Science Programs | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Professional Development and Workshops
    Access and Inclusion: Low Socioeconomic Status

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