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Journal Article
Find out how the Detroit Zoological Society partnered with local organizations to create Celebrate Urban Backyards, which engages afterschool educat...
By Claire Lannoye-Hall and Zahraa Aljebori
Journal Article
Learn about an effective and affordable three-focus approach that brings together academia, the community, and the real world in a way that makes af...
By Edward Njoo, Surabhi Narain, Lakshmidevi Pabbisetty, and Mahesh Agrawal
Journal Article
Minnesota 4-H seeks to improve the quantity and quality of out-of-school STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) experiences for middle sc...
By Mark Haugen, Margo Bowerman, R. Michael Compton, Anne Stevenson, and Patrick Jirik
Journal Article
Inspiring STEM Interest Using Foldscope
The Gaining Options to College Collaborative (GO College) is a successful college mentoring program within the Erie, Pennsylvania, school district. ...
By Anne Schmitz, Nicholas Conklin, Quyen Aoh, and Barbara Priestap
Journal Article
The Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative (GLSI) is a statewide network in Michigan that promotes rigorous place-based education experiences for K–12 s...
By Sarah Waters, Brandon Schroeder, and Tracy D'Augustino
Journal Article
Cocreating Transformative Change
Leveraging community to create a mobile, cultural makerspace that travels to schools, powwows, and community events throughout a Native American reser...
By Holly Truitt, Ruth Swaney, William Swaney, Nick Wethington, and Nathalie Wolfram
Blog Post
Recently, my colleagues and I had an exchange with some teachers in one of our professional development programs. One teacher said, “I think I do a ...
Journal Article
Do Children Make Good Citizen Scientists?
Participating in citizen science—where members of the public collect data for use by scientists—has become popular over the past 5 to 10 years, ...
By Christine L. Goforth
Journal Article
Fabricating Fidgets to Support Inclusive Maker Education
With the goal of supporting an inclusive maker education learning experience, a science museum, university, and middle school partnered to engage st...
By Alexandria K. Hansen, Eric R. Hansen, and Danielle B. Harlow
Journal Article
Accessible Making and Tinkering
Maker spaces and programs offer tremendous opportunities for all learners to explore new materials, expand their practical skills, think creatively,...
By Charlotte Martin
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
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
Journal Article
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