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  • Analyzing Patterns of Community Interest at a Legacy Mining Waste Site to Assess and Inform Environmental Health Literacy Efforts
    Date: 07/28/2015
    Resource Category!: Research Products
    Understanding a community's concerns and informational needs is crucial to conducting and improving environmental health research and literacy initiatives. We hypothesized that analysis of community inquiries over time at a legacy mining site would be an effective method for assessing environmental health literacy efforts and determining whether ... »
  • Artistic research and climate science: transdisciplinary learning and spaces of possibilities
    Date: 03/31/2015
    Resource Category!: Mass Media Article
    Taking a wider view, departing from the specific case of the Hamburg exchange between artists and climate scientists, this comment envisages some radical potential for the collaboration of artists and climate scientists: moving beyond the traditional boundaries of social systems, artistic research and climate science may engage in a shared ... »
  • Broadening Access to STEM Learning through Out-of-School Learning Environments
    Date: 01/01/2015
    Resource Category!: Report
    This paper, commissioned as part of a consensus study on successful out-of-school STEM learning from the National Research Council's Board on Science Education, explores evidence-based strategies developed in out-of-school time STEM programs for successfully engaging youth from underrepresented demographics in STEM learning. ... »
  • Building a co-created citizen science program with gardeners neighboring a superfund site: The Gardenroots case study
    Date: 07/28/2015
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    A research project that is only expert-driven may ignore the role of local knowledge in research, often gives low priority to the development of a comprehensive communication strategy to engage the community, and may not deliver the results of the study to the community in an effective way. Objective: To demonstrate how a research program can ... »
  • Communities of Learning for Urban Environments and Science (CLUES) Final Summative Evaluation Report
    Date: 11/25/2015
    Resource Category!: Summative
    In the Communities of Learning for Urban Environments and Science (CLUES) project, the four museums of the Philadelphia-Camden Informal Science Education Collaborative worked to build informal science education (ISE) capacity in historically underserved communities. The program offered comprehensive professional development (PD) to Apprentices ... »
  • Community Resiliency Informed by Science and Experience (C-RISE)
    Date: 10/01/2015
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    C-RISE will create a replicable, customizable model for supporting citizen engagement with scientific data and reasoning to increase community resiliency under conditions of sea level rise and storm surge. Working with NOAA partners, we will design, pilot, and deliver interactive digital learning experiences that use the best available NOAA data ... »
  • Connecting formal and informal science learning through school-community partnerships
    Date: 01/01/2015
    Resource Category!: Research Brief
    To improve science education for culturally and linguistically diverse students, schools and communities can create “mutual benefit partnerships” to identify and address local problems. Through the example of the Chicago River Project, Bouillion and Gomez illustrate how such partnerships can connect formal learning contexts with the rich ways ... »
  • Designing Public-Centric Forms of Public Engagement with Research
    Date: 05/14/2015
    Resource Category!: Reference Materials
    What happens if we put ‘the public’ at the centre of our efforts to conceptualise, conduct and evaluate publicly engaged research? This Open University pamphlet outlines a public-centric approach to engagement you can make use of in your own settings. Drawing on insights from recent empirical research and key strands of the theoretical literature ... »
  • Developing an informal environmental health education model for use in Tribal communities
    Date: 09/01/2015
    Resource Category!: Project Descriptions
    As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative resources for use in a variety of settings. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and ... »
  • From the front lines of the science of science communication
    Date: 04/07/2015
    Resource Category!: Reference Materials
    This presentation was part of the "Science of Science Communication" dyad at the 2015 CAISE Convening on Broader Impacts + Informal Science Education held in Arlington, VA on April 7-8. The presentation describes the value for scientists of public outreach and the importance of knowing one's audience. ... »

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