With support from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and foundations, SciStarter.org is the leading citizen science hub on the Internet. Building on this grant-supported foundation, SciStarter is deploying a new EdTech product for school districts and universities.
SciStarter Education is an EdTech platform with science participation + engagement as its key goal (with supplementary curriculum):
- Students participate in actual science projects that we curate based on your district’s specific STEM curriculum; projects aligned with UN Global Sustainable Development Goals
- Students work in an interactive web portal for completing projects, recording observations, reflecting on what students have learned
Students hear from scientists at academic institutions and government agencies - Students can fulfill community service requirement credits via citizen science
- Teachers receive training and PD materials
- Once a class has completed at least one curated SciStarter Project, they can build their own community-based projects in the portal to address issues about which they are curious or concerned
- Integration with rostering and enrollment data for single sign on and one-click authentication linking teachers with their students in SciStarter Education
- District, School, Classroom, and Student-level analytics dashboards to measure individual and collective impact
- Learn how Broward (FL) County School District and North Carolina State University are currently leveraging SciStarter Education and how you can bring this resource to your district or university!