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  • Advancing Ocean Science Literacy Through Immersive Virtual Reality Project
    Date: 07/31/2022
    Resource Category: Summative
    In 2019, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program at the National Science Foundation funded the Advancing Ocean Science Literacy through Immersive Virtual Reality project, a pilot/feasibility and collaborative research project between The Hydrous and the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford University designed to investigate how ... »
  • STEAM stop motion animation
    Date: 07/27/2022
    Resource Category: Reference Materials
    This NAEA presentation was an active workshop, guiding participants to create a stop motion animation in the context of our STEAM practices framework. ... »
  • IMLS-KU Natural History Museum Project Summative Assessment Report
    Date: 07/23/2022
    Resource Category: Summative
    This assessment serves as the summative assessment of the IMLS-funded project at KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum: Natural History Mystery: Immersing families in a problem-solving game using museum collections. The assessment employs a mixed methods approach, in which both quantitative and qualitative data are collected. More ... »
  • Engineering for Equity: Exploring the Intersection of Engineering Education, Family Learning, Early Childhood, and Equity
    Date: 07/11/2022
    Resource Category: Book
    Over the last year we have been able to take a few hours each week to step back from our current work, reflect on our assumptions, learn from others, and explore new ways that our research could both uncover and help dismantle inequities and racism in the STEM education system. This eBook, and the series of blog posts on which it is based, is the ... »
  • Awarding Engagement: The impact of scientific societies’ awards recognizing work at the intersections of science and society
    Date: 06/29/2022
    Resource Category: Report
    One of the many ways that scientific societies and associations aim to support and encourage public and civic engagement among their membership is by conferring awards to those who excel in these areas. This report describes research designed to better understand this class of awards (referred to throughout this report as “engagement awards,” ... »
  • Intertwining art and STEM: an analysis of STEAM activities.
    Date: 06/09/2022
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    The integration of Art with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEAM) has been growing in popularity, however, there are a variety of conceptualizations of what it looks like. This study explores images of STEAM by examining activities created by informal educators. We found that STEAM activities were conceptualized as using one ... »
  • 2022 Poster: The Effect of Building Materials on Families’ Spatial Conversations During a Playful Construction Activity
    Date: 06/08/2022
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    Children’s and parents’ spatial language use (e.g., talk about shapes, sizes and locations) supports children’s spatial skill development. Families use spatial language during playful construction activities. Spatial language use varies with construction activity design characteristics, such as the activity’s play goals. What is the connection ... »
  • Fostering STEAM Final Summative Evaluation Report
    Date: 05/24/2022
    Resource Category: Summative
    Fostering STEAM provided exceptional professional development that was highly rated by participants and contributed to expected participant learning outcomes. The in-person Fostering STEAM workshop reflected professional development best practices. Likewise, the online Fostering STEAM course reflected indicators of effective online continuing ... »
  • 2022 Poster - "You Gotta Tell the Camera!': Digital storytelling activities support children's narrative and engineering talk
    Date: 05/17/2022
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    Informal educational activities, such as tinkering, can be beneficial for children’s engineering learning (Bevan, 2017; Sobel & Jipson, 2016). Storytelling can help children organize and make meaning of their experiences (Brown et al., 2014; Bruner, 1996), thereby supporting learning. We examine whether digital storytelling activities during ... »
  • 2022 Poster - Connections between digital storytelling and children’s narrative and engineering talk
    Date: 05/17/2022
    Resource Category: Conference Proceedings
    Informal educational activities, such as tinkering, can be beneficial for children’s engineering learning (Bevan, 2017; Sobel & Jipson, 2016). Storytelling can help children organize and make meaning of their experiences (Brown et al., 2014; Bruner, 1996), thereby supporting learning. Digital storytelling, in which narratives and reflections ... »

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