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  • A Design-Based Research Study of Staff-Facilitated Family Learning at Interactive Math Exhibits
    Date: 12/18/2017
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Staff facilitators in museums and science centers are a critical but often overlooked component of the visitor experience. Despite assertions about the important role they play in visitor learning, there continues to be almost no research to understand staff facilitation in these settings or identify effective practices. To address these gaps, we ... »
  • Acceso la Ciencia: Haciendo la Ciencia Accesible para los Padres y de los Ninos Latinos en Comunidades Rurales / Access Science: Making Science Accessible for Latino Parents
    Date: 09/15/2006
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    To address a lack of informal science education opportunities and to increase community capacity to support STEM education for their children, Washington State University's Yakima Valley/Tri Cities MESA program, the Pacific Science Center, and KDNA Educational Radio have developed a set of informal science initiatives that offer complementary ... »
  • Access Algebra
    Date: 08/15/2007
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) will create a 5,000 sq ft traveling exhibition designed to engage families with children ages 10-14 with concepts of algebra. Access Algebra will increase visitor awareness of the role of algebra in everyday life and help them to develop algebraic thinking skills. This exhibition will travel to 21 ... »
  • Access from the Ground Up Evaluation Report
    Date: 04/18/2022
    Resource Category!: Summative
    Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Access from the Ground Up project at the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo (JMZ) seeks to better serve children with disabilities through a combination of partnerships with community, staff professional development and training, and the development of accessible STEM-focused exhibits and ... »
  • Broad Implementation: Creating Communities Of Learners For Informal Cognitive Science Education
    Date: 09/01/2011
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Boston's Museum of Science (MOS), with Harvard as its university research partner, is extending, disseminating, and further evaluating their NSF-funded (DRL-0714706) Living Laboratory model of informal cognitive science education. In this model, early-childhood researchers have both conducted research in the MOS Discovery Center for young children ... »
  • Celestial Islands: Using NASA Earth Science to Reach Hawaii's Educators and Students
    Date: 09/01/2012
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The goal of this project is to advance STEM education in Hawaii by creating a series of educational products, based on NASA Earth Systems Science, for students (grades 3-5) and general public. Bishop Museum (Honolulu HI) is the lead institution. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the primary NASA center involved in the project. Partners include ... »
  • Collaborative Research, Pathways Project: Project SOS - Making Connections using the Science Of Sustainability
    Date: 08/15/2012
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    This Pathways Project connects rural, underserved youth and families in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho to STEM concepts important in sustainable building design. The project is a collaboration of the Palouse Discovery Science Center (Pullman, WA), Washington State University and University of Idaho, working in partnership with rural ... »
  • Designing Our World Summative Evaluation Year 4
    Date: 12/15/2017
    Resource Category!: Summative
    Designing Our World (DOW) was a four-year NSF-funded initiative in which the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) sought to promote girls’ pursuit of engineering careers through community-based programming, exhibition development, and identity research. The overarching aim of DOW was to engage girls ages 9–14 with experiences that ... »
  • EAGER: An Indoor Positioning System for Informal Learning Experiences
    Date: 09/15/2013
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Exploratorium, in partnership with Qualcomm, proposes to develop and test a highly accurate indoor positioning system (IPS) at full museum scale. Such a system would increase the feasibility and power of whole-visit research studies and open up opportunities for using IPS to support new and innovative informal STEM learning experiences. Within ... »
  • Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education: "Invention at Play"
    Date: 06/10/2002
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention in cooperation with the Playful Invention and Exploration Network (a consortium of six museums) will develop "Invention at Play." This will be a traveling exhibit in two sizes (3,500 sq. ft. & 1,500 sq. ft.) exploring the value of play and its critical role in the development of creative human ... »

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