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  • Engaging Rural, Latinx Youth in an After School Program That Integrates Design Thinking, Making and Math
    Date: 08/01/2022
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The project will develop and research an after-school program designed to engage rural, Latinx youth in design thinking and math through making. Making is a learner-centered environment where participants design, create, and develop projects. Latinx individuals are underrepresented in the STEM workforce. The project will engage Latinx youth during ... »
  • Using media and technology to advance public awareness of research on microscopic larvae in the deep ocean
    Date: 08/01/2022
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Few people realize that the largest part of our planet’s biosphere remains virtually unexplored and unknown. This enormous habitat, accounting for an area of 116 million square miles or the equivalent size of roughly 30 times the area of the United States, is the abyssal zone of the deep ocean. The abyssal sea floor, at about 6000 ft., contains ... »
  • STEM Pathways for Rural Youth: Developing STEM Identity Through the Outdoors
    Date: 08/01/2022
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    For some rural communities, the outdoor recreation ecosystem is an integral part of the STEM learning ecosystem that connects rural youth with STEM and STEM career pathways. Landowners and forest managers construct and fly drones to inventory, map, and monitor resources. Hatcheries monitor fish levels and sustain populations for recreational ... »
  • Data Science Exhibits: Developing Theoretical Grounding and Practical Guidance for Museum Practitioners
    Date: 08/01/2022
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    Data science is ever-present in modern life. The need to learn with and about data science is becoming increasingly important in a world where the quantity of data is constantly growing, where one’s own data are often being harvested and marketed, where data science career opportunities are rapidly increasing, and where understanding statistics, ... »
  • Advancing Public Engagement with Science across the Long-Term Ecological Research Network
    Date: 08/01/2022
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    The goal of this project is to understand and support the development of evidence-based public engagement with science (PES) strategies within STEM research organizations. It specifically seeks to understand how scientists, institutional leaders, and staff within the NSF’s Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network make decisions about the ... »
  • Professional Impacts Evaluation: Unpacking the STEM Imagination Convening and Activities
    Date: 08/01/2022
    Resource Category!: Evaluation Reports
    This report describes results of a professional impacts evaluation to understand the impact of the Unpacking the Imagination Convening on its participants. Evaluation Questions were: (1) What, if any, new perspectives on imagination, STEM, and learning did participants gain through the pre conference activities and/or the convening? (2) How, if at ... »
  • 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 ... »

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