All Connect Science Learning resources
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The Maker Movement Is Everywhere, Including in the Current Issue of CSL
Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the seventh issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM learning experiences through making. ...
By Dennis Schatz
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Taking the Maker Experience From a Local Phenomenon to National Implementation
MAKESHOP at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is open for all to experience hands-on building and tinkering, and their initiative has spread natio...
By Chip Lindsey, Lisa Brahms, and Kathryn Koffler
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Educators from the Exploratorium Tinkering Studio and the Lighthouse Community Public Schools explored how out-of-school Making and Tinkering programs...
By Bronwyn Bevan, Jean J. Ryoo, Aaron Vanderwerff, Mike Petrich, and Karen Wilkinson
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Science Investigation and Developing Students’ Science-Process Skills Through Citizen Science
It’s 7:15 on a Friday morning and the ‘early birds’ have arrived. Eager students don their binoculars for Ms. Vigeland’s before-school birdwat...
By Jennifer Fee
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The Philly Scientists project engages underserved youth in grades 5–8 and their educators in a curriculum that includes a mobile application with ...
By Rasheda Likely, Magdalene Moy, and Nancy Songer
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The Curiosity Machine Family Program at Iridescent Learning brings underserved families together over five weeks to do open-ended engineering design c...
By Wallace Louie, Tara Chklovski, Maggie Jaris, and Audra Torres
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Connecting Fossil Clubs With K–12 Teachers
FOSSILs4Teachers! is a professional development workshop that allows K–12 educators and museum paleontologists to collaborate on fossil resources ...
By Jeanette Pirlo, Bruce J. MacFadden, Eleanor E. Gardner, Victor J. Perez, and Denise Porcello
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Engaging Learners in Authentic Science With Environmental Data
Citizen science has long been touted as a way to engage in-school and out-of-school learners in authentic science, but the opportunities have largel...
By Daniel C. Edelson, Audrey Mohan, and Sean O'Connor
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Connected Climate Change Learning Through Citizen Science
Educators in rural Alaska assessed and implemented effective strategies for Indigenous youth in rural Alaska to use GLOBE (Global Learning and Observa...
By Katie V. Spellman, Elena B. Sparrow, Malinda J. Chase, Angela Larson, and Kelly Kealy
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Engaging Youth in Citizen Science
Happy Citizen Science Day: April 14, 2018 Please join us in celebrating Citizen Science Day, which falls this year on Saturday, April 14th. This ...
By Dennis Schatz
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Numbers in Nature, Math on the Mountain
Data are the workhorses of the scientific endeavor and their use is rapidly evolving (Haendel, Vasilevsky, and Wirz 2012). Ask almost any scientist ...
By Michael Giamellaro and Kari O'Connell
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In North Carolina, 39% of eighth-grade students report that they “never or hardly ever” design a science experiment, and another 29% of eighth gra...
By Suzanne Branon, Sherry Booth Freeman, Lauren Bryant, LaTricia Townsend, and Malinda Faber
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“I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This”
Learn about how a university-based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science-focused museums implement an ecological approach to ...
By Daniel Birmingham, Lara Smetana, Heidi Rouleau, and Jenna Carlson