JoinAll Informal Education resources
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The Wings Over Water (WOW) collaboration began with ospreys....
By Allison De Jong, Jenélle Dowling, Erick Greene, and Sharon Leigh Miles
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NASA eClips Bundle: The Carbon Cycle
Carbon is an essential building block for life. The resources in this bundle will explain how this life-sustaining element moves through the environme...
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NASA eClips Bundle: Sun's Position
The NASA eClips and related resources will help students to understand how our sun's position in the sky changes due to Earth's rotation, revolution a...
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NASA eClips Bundle: Earth's Energy Balance
This NASA eClips Bundle, geared toward grades 6-9, includes two videos on Earth's energy balance featuring NASA Subject Matter Expert Patrick Taylor. ...
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This bundle from NASA eClips contains a video that explains the life cycle of stars, a student-produced Spotlite video that confronts the science misc...
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NASA eClips Videos: Extremophiles
Are we alone in the Universe? Join NASA eClips in the search for answers to this question and many others about life in our solar system....
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As a Connected Science Learning reader, you already know that collaboration is what this journal is all about. We strive to publish articles that hi...
By Beth Murphy
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A Tale of Two Partnership Models
Engaging in science at an early age cultivates foundational mindsets and practices for future learning, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, ...
By Jenny Ingber, Jacqueline Horgan, and Veena Vasudevan
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Dealing With Disasters Through Emergency Response Teen Science Cafés
According to a 2012 United Nations report, many countries prioritize children’s learning about the genesis, prevention, and mitigation of natural ...
By Jan Mokros, Michelle Hall, and Michael Mayhew
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Engineering Explorations are curriculum modules that engage children across contexts in learning about science and engineering. We used them to leve...
By Danielle B. Harlow, Ron Skinner, Tarah Connolly, and Alexandria Muller
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Design Elements From a Rural, Multi-Organization Collaborative
On a Saturday afternoon last May in Hamilton, Montana, 150 people gathered in a college gymnasium for the Bitterroot Maker Fair. At tables around th...
By Beth Covitt, Vic Mortimer, Nick Wethington, and Nathalie Wolfram
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Middle school is a critical time for fostering girls’ interest in science, as it is during these years that girls begin to identify with their str...
By Alicia Santiago, Kristin Pederson, and Rita Karl
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STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) mindset is critical to youths’ ongoing participation in STEM, as well as their functionin...
By Jeanna R. Wieselmann
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Teen science café programs are a free, fun way for high school teens to explore advances in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM...
By Michelle Hall, and Michael Mayhew