Blog: Citizen Science Projects, People, and Perspectives
By Megan Ray Nichols, Nov 18, 2018
This post is part three of a three-part series about how Curio can help citizens recognize, appreciate, and care for the highly beneficial green spaces around them. Special thanks to Megan Ray Nichols for putting all this together. Portions of this interview appeared in part one of this series. Part One | Part Two | Part Three What are … Read more “Part Three of Curio Series: Q&A with Co-Founder, Conor Nugent”
Categories: Apps, Citizen Science, CitSci Research, EarthSchool, Ecology & Environment, Environment
By Paul Hickey,
This post is part two of a three-part series about how Curio can help citizens recognize, appreciate, and care for the highly beneficial green spaces around them. Part One | Part Two | Part Three When I was 8 years old, a friend of mine fell from the very top of an extremely tall cypress … Read more “Part Two of Curio Series: A Word From Co-Founder, Paul Hickey”
Categories: Apps, Citizen Science, CitSci Research, EarthSchool, Ecology & Environment, Environment
By Megan Ray Nichols,
This post is part one of a three-part series about how Curio can help citizens recognize, appreciate, and care for the highly beneficial green spaces around them. Part One | Part Two | Part Three The word “forest” can conjure an image of distant, thickly wooded area, straight from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Curio, an app and website, … Read more “Part One of Curio Series: Protect Urban Forests With Curio”
Categories: Apps, Citizen Science, CitSci Research, EarthSchool, Ecology & Environment, Environment
By Caroline Nickerson, Oct 26, 2018
Thursday, November 111:00 a.m. Please join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine for a webinar release of this new report from the Board on Science Education. SciStarter’s founder and Professor of Practice at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU, Darlene Cavalier, is a co-author of this report. From … Read more “Webinar: Learning Through Citizen Science: Enhancing Opportunities by Design”
Categories: Citizen Science, Other
By Jill Nugent, Oct 24, 2018
Citizen science can be an excellent way to engage learners in the process of science and to address the Practices as outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In each issue of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Journal, Science Scope, a citizen science project from the SciStarter Project Finder is featured! In the … Read more “Citizen Science in the Classroom: ISeeChange”
Categories: Citizen Science, Citizen Science News, Climate & Weather, EarthSchool, Ecology & Environment, Education, In the News, Nature & Outdoors, Science Education Standards, SciStarter News
By Lea Shell, Oct 20, 2018
Zombees and spiders and bats, Oh MY! Drag your bones over, give these a TRY! Our editors selected these six projects to enchant, haunt, and amaze you this Halloween! Cheers! The SciStarter Team
Categories: Bats, Citizen Science, Education, Featured Projects, Insects, Newsletter, videos
By Darlene Cavalier, Oct 18, 2018
October 25, 2018 8:30am—10:30am Location Information ASU Barrett & O’Connor Center 1800 I St NW 8th Floor Washington, DC 20006 Free event however you must RSVP Public engagement with science is vital because it provides opportunities for mutual learning between scientists and the public. Engagement efforts connect the public with new knowledge and the people … Read more “Connecting Public Engagement in Science Efforts Across Silos”
Categories: Citizen Science, Events, Other
By Katherine Ball,
It’s alive! The first time Mary Shelley introduced Dr. Frankenstein’s lab in her 1818 novel, she described it as “a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house… I kept my workshop of filthy creation… The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials.” Two hundred years later, researchers at … Read more “Frankenstein Outside the Castle”
Categories: Citizen Science, Citizen Science News, EarthSchool, Education, Featured Projects, Gaming, Project Profile
By Tyler Black, Oct 10, 2018
Forrester, Anna. Bat Count: A Citizen Science Story. Arbordale Publishing, 2017. 32 pages. Paperback (English and Spanish editions) $US9.95. Bathala, Neeti, Keats Curtis, Jennifer, & Jones, Veronica V. (Illustrator). Moonlight Crab Count. Arbordale Publishing, 2017. 32 pages.Paperback (English and Spanish editions) $US9.95. Looking for some not-so-spooky reads for your little ones? Just in time for … Read more “Book Review: Citizen Science for Your Littlest Researcher”
Categories: Book Review, Citizen Science, EarthSchool, libraries
By Nina Friedman, Oct 07, 2018
In January 2017, eleven field science advocates gathered in an unlikely location: indoors. These individuals were educators, scientists, and web platform developers participating in the Designing Citizen Science for Both Science and Education workshop, hosted by BSCS Science Learning (BSCS) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The workshop focused on georeferenced field studies, which are projects that … Read more “Designing Citizen Science for Both Science and Education”
Categories: Citizen Science, Citizen Science News, EarthSchool, Education, Events, Science Practices, Workshops
