The Prepared Practitioner: Learning Science Beyond the Classroom

Journal Article | June 2008

Have you ever learned science outside of school, free of fact-based standards and tests? Were you at a museum, national park, or maybe in front of a TV? Science educators refer to this kind of learning as free-choice…

Service Learning: A Way to Connect Science to the Community

Journal Article | March 2005

How often have we tried to connect middle school science to students' lives only to lack an idea or a vehicle for making the connection? Service learning can provide that kind of link for students. It is a teaching and…

Editor's Note: 'Tis the Season for Outdoor Learning

Journal Article | January 2000

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

Science Sampler: Students learn best by teaching

Journal Article | February 2007

Traditionally, science fair projects allow students to share their personal investigations about nature. In a science fair presentation, a student typically lectures, pointing out observations, data, analysis, and…

Take a Fresh Look at Connected Science Learning

Journal Article | October 2018

Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the latest issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM Learning Through Afterschool Experiences, and introduces the journal’s incoming Field Editor, Beth Murphy.  …

Informal Science Learning in Online Affinity Spaces

Journal Article | July 2017

Affinity spaces are online forums in which participants, including informal science education professionals, share with one another teaching and learning resources on a given topic.   Affinity spaces are online…