Teenage Designers of Learning Places
The St. Louis Science Center, in collaboration with the City College of New York and the Science Museum of Minnesota, are combining their considerable expertise with youth programs to create new...
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What can professional online communities contribute to learning, networking, and capacity building? How do we know that our online resources have impact on the field? And what insights are being...
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ExhibitFiles
ExhibitFiles is a community website for people who design and develop museum exhibitions. A project of the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), the site was designed by multimedia company...
View ArticleNestWatch
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, is engaging thousands of citizens in gathering data about nesting birds—helping researchers to better...
View ArticlePublic Participation in Scientific Research
During the past two decades, an increasing number of informal science education projects have involved the public directly in the multifaceted and iterative processes of scientific research--covering...
View ArticleConCiencia Hispanic Science Newswire
In January 2007, with support from NSF, the Self Reliance Foundation (SRF) launched ConCiencia, the first Spanish-language science and health news service in the United States. ConCiencia/Hispanic...
View ArticleStrengthening Informal Science Education in the Latino Community, March 2009
Latinos are the largest ethnic/racial minority group in the United States, but Latino students score lower than national averages on math and science achievement tests, enroll at lower levels, and are...
View ArticleCAISE Fellows 2008-09
The CAISE Fellows Program aims to broaden participation by and build capacity of professionals in informal science education (ISE) who are from underrepresented groups and underrepresented regions of...
View ArticleCommunication on the Cutting Edge: Lessons from the Nanoscale
How can informal science institutions respond to major and rapid changes in science and technology? The Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, NISE Net, is a multi-year effort to do just that,...
View ArticleNanotechnology The Power of Small
Nanotechnology: The Power of Small is a three-part television series that provides its audiences with an opportunity to examine the implications of nanotechnology for privacy, the environment, and...
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Informal Science Education Summit 2010
Washington, D.C. March 3-5, 2010The ISE Summit 2010 will bring together leaders from across the community to build a compelling picture of informal science education today--from the richly complex...
View ArticleAstronomy from the Ground Up
Astronomy from the Ground Up (AFGU) provides informal science educators at science and nature centers, museums, and other informal education venues with new ways to communicate astronomy content to...
View ArticlePaying More Attention to Paying Attention
Time and attention are fundamental to informal science learning. Beverly Serrell, evaluator and veteran observer of science centers and museums, public gardens, and aquariums, has analyzed studies of...
View ArticleMaking Science Matter: Collaborations Between Informal Science Education...
Informal science education is often seen as secondary or supplementary to formal education - even though the vast majority of our waking lives are spent outside of school. But "in fact, formal-informal...
View ArticleInclusion, Disabilities, and Informal Science Learning
People with disabilities all too often face barriers to full inclusion in informal science learning. In a world where knowledge of science and technology is critical to informed decision-making and a...
View ArticleInformal Science Education Summit 2010
Nearly 450 people from across the informal science education field gathered in Washington, D.C., March 3-5, for the ISE Summit 2010. The program included a keynote address by Neil deGrasse Tyson, host...
View ArticleWild Music
The traveling exhibition Wild Music: Sounds & Songs of Life resulted from a partnership among the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM), and the...
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New NSF Informal Science Education grant solicitation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a new solicitation May 21 for grant applications under its Informal Science Education (ISE) program. The NSF ISE program supports "innovation in anywhere,...
View ArticleNSF's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings
NSF's Informal Science Education (ISE) program is one of several grant programs in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL). DRL is part of the Directorate for...
View ArticleListen
Listen: Making Sense of Sound was a project of the Exploratorium that made the act of attentive listening the primary entry point for interacting with a wide variety of natural and technological...
View ArticleOut-of-School Time STEM: Building Experience, Building Bridges, October 2009
A June 2010 report from the Exploratorium's Learning and Youth Research and Evaluation Center (LYREC) highlights trends, questions, and findings related to out-of-school-time science, technology,...
View ArticleAn Attention-Value Model of Museum Visitors
This issue, we return to the topic of "attention," which Beverly Serrell addressed in the June newsletter, this time from the point of view of Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Jacksonville State...
View ArticleScience Festivals
Over 100 science and technology festivals were celebrated this year around the world. While the concept is relatively new in the US, there were over a dozen festivals held here in 2010, and that number...
View ArticleInformal Science Education Policy: Issues and Opportunities
Informal science education as we know it today didn’t begin from national mandates, the continuation of long-standing practices, or a coordinated effort of a large group. It arose at various places and...
View ArticleCAISE Initiatives
The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) works to strengthen and connect the informal science education (ISE) community by catalyzing conversation and collaboration across the...
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Making Stuff
Making Stuff is a four-part NOVA television series that highlights current advances in the field of materials science. The series showcases the importance of materials science through a historical...
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Connecting Cultures
The Latino population is one of the fastest growing in the U.S., but one of the most critical challenges facing educators is how to engage this audience in informal science education. Environment for...
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EARTH The Operators Manual
EARTH: The Operators’ Manual(ETOM), is a new approach to climate change education, deploying broadcast television, web resources and on-site outreach at science centers and other venues nationwide....
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Science Firsthand
In 2005, First Hand Learning, Inc., partnered with the St. Louis Science Center, the National Wildlife Federation, and eNature to create a unique collaborative program that enables young people to...
View ArticleNSF Informal Science Education Solicitation
NSF's Informal Science Education program supports innovation in "anywhere, anytime, lifelong learning," through investments in research, development, infrastructure, and capacity-building for science,...
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HowToSmile
Funded by the National Science Foundation, howtosmile.org is the informal education pathway of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley Lawrence...
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Golden Gate Bridge as ISE Resource
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District is the recipient of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF #0840185) to establish a permanent outdoor exhibition in the...
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Peep and the Big Wide World
A Bird’s Eye View of Preschool ScienceHow does a simple yellow circle with stick legs become an irresistible television character? How can a “big wide world” that encompasses not much more than a...
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Art as a Form of Inquiry and a Way of Knowing
Still from Magnetic Movie by the artist duo Semiconductor Films, UK, participants in the Art as a Way of Knowing conference In March 2011, the Exploratorium hosted a conference called Art as a Way of...
View ArticleNational Science Foundation PI Meeting
The 2012 NSF ISE Program PI Meeting took place March 14-16 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. The meeting offered ample opportunities for professional networking, connecting with NSF...
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Trail of Time
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Trail of Time (ToT) is a three-mile-long and fully accessible, interpretive walking timeline trail located on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon....
View ArticleNational Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program
Advancing Informal STEM Learning is a new program name for the Informal Science Education Program at the National Science Foundation. The name of the program has changed from Informal Science Education...
View ArticleOngoing Research at Columbia Glacier Alaska
Outreach and Educational Support for Ongoing Research at Columbia Glacier AlaskaScientist Principal Investigator (PI): Tad Pfeffer – Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder, and Fellow, Institute of...
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Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education
CAISE is pleased to announce that it has received (U.S.) National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for another three years. CAISE was established in 2007 as a cooperative agreement between the NSF...
View ArticleHawaii Roots of Fire
Hawaii: Roots of Fire Scientist Principal Investigator (PI):Don DePaolo, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Professor; Energy and Environmental Science Associate Director, Earth Science...
View ArticleBeyond the Edge of the Sea
Beyond the Edge of the Sea: Diversity of Life in the Ocean Wilderness Scientist Principal Investigator (PI):Cindy Van Dover, Duke University professor and U.S. Navy-qualified pilot of the deep-diving...
View ArticleOut on a Limb
Out on a Limb Scientist Principal Investigator (PI):Meg Lowman â Director, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences/Nature Research Center Director (formerly New College of Florida professor)...
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The Zoo and Aquarium Action Research Collaborative (ZAARC)
The ZAARC project is investigating how action research efforts can be implemented in informal science settings (particularly zoos and aquariums) and in what ways it can impact both individual...
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Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS)
CoCoRaHS, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, is a citizen science project based at Colorado State University (CSU), led by Principal Investigator Nolan Doesken and funded in part...
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Lupe's Story
To produce a public exhibition to study how children use evidence to construct scientific explanations, the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM), in collaboration with the University of...
View ArticleMapping Sustainable Practices
Contextualizing Science Learning and Motivation in Rural and Indigenous Adolescents through Mapping Sustainable Practices (The MSP Project), is based at the University of New Hampshire and funded by...
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HERP Project
The HERP Project, Herpetology Education in Rural Places & Spaces, is a collaborative, statewide informal science education project directed by faculty from three institutions of higher education:...
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CCI ISE Partnerships
Centers for Chemical Innovation - Informal Science Education PartnershipsIn September 2012 the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded supplemental funding to five Centers for Chemical Innovation...
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STAR_Net
A hands-on learning program for libraries and their communities (or STAR_Net) is a national program led by the Space Science Institute’s National Center for Interactive Learning (NCIL) nc4il.org. Core...
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