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  • Embodied Physics: Using the Lenses of Physics and Dance to Investigate Learning, Engagement, and Identity Development for Black and Latinx Youth
    Date: 09/01/2021
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    The call for more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education taking place in informal settings has the potential to shape future generations, drive new innovations and expand opportunities. Yet, its power remains to be fully realized in many communities of color. However, research has shown that using creative embodied ... »
  • Understanding Physics through Collaborative Design and Play: Integrating Skateboarding with STEM in a Digital and Physical Game-Based Children's Museum Exhibit
    Date: 08/31/2021
    Resource Category: Summative
    This is the summative evaluation report for the “Understanding the Physics of Collaborative Design and Play,” a collaboration between researchers and children’s museum practitioners to design and build a physics-based children’s museum exhibit to provide opportunities for children and their caregivers to tinker with play related to the STEM ... »
  • Building Quantum Information Science Intuition through Digital Games
    Date: 08/01/2021
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning ... »
  • Materials and participants: A dialogical relationship
    Date: 06/07/2021
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    Materials play an important role in learning. Humans actors use materials in particular ways depending on the context and materials also can shape how human actors use materials. This study explores the dialogical relationship between the participants and materials in suminagashi, a Japanese paper marbling activity. We found that materials that ... »
  • Empowering Informal Educators to Prepare Future Generations in Wireless Radio Communications with Mobile Resources
    Date: 10/01/2020
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    Wireless radio communications, such as Wi-Fi, transmit public and private data from one device to another, including cell phones, computers, medical equipment, satellites, space rockets, and air traffic control. Despite their critical role and prevalence, many people are unfamiliar with radio waves, how they are generated and interact with their ... »
  • Investigating the Development of STEM-Positive Identities of Refugee Teens in a Physics Out-of-School Time Experience
    Date: 09/01/2020
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    Refugee youth are particularly vulnerable to STEM disenfranchisement due to factors including limited or interrupted schooling following displacement; restricted exposure to STEM education; and linguistic, cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, and racial minority status. Refugee youth may experience a gap in STEM skills and knowledge, and a conflict ... »
  • Key Concepts for Quantum Information Science (QIS) Learners
    Date: 05/18/2020
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    On behalf of the Interagency Working Group on Workforce, Industry and Infrastructure, under the NSTC Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science (QIS), the National Science Foundation invited 25 researchers and educators to come together to deliberate on defining a core set of key concepts for future QIS learners that could provide a starting ... »
  • Shifting forms of Engagement: Volunteer Learning in Online Citizen Science
    Date: 05/01/2020
    Resource Category: Peer-reviewed article
    Peer production projects involve people in many tasks, from editing articles to analyzing datasets. To facilitate mastery of these practices, projects offer a number of learning resources, ranging from project-defined FAQsto individually-oriented search tools and communal discussion boards. However, it is not clear which project resources best ... »
  • Informal STEM education: From personal to professional
    Date: 01/11/2020
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Exploratorium, the self-described "museum of science, art and human perception," in San Francisco, California and the 10th anniversary of the launching of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report Learning Science in Informal Environments ... »
  • Hidden No More: Shedding Light on Science Stories in the Shadows
    Date: 09/01/2019
    Resource Category: Project Descriptions
    There is a dearth of prominent STEM role models for underrepresented populations. For example, according to a 2017 survey, only 3.1% of physicists in the United States are Black, only 2.1% are Hispanic, and only 0.5% are Native American. The project will help bridge these gaps by developing exhibits that include simulations of historical ... »

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