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  • Interested in Connecting In-School and Out-of-School STEM Learning?

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    Use the National AfterSchool Association’s resources to learn about best practices for implementing out-of-school STEM learning.     The National AfterSchool Association (NAA) is committed to providing…

  • Take a Fresh Look at Connected Science Learning

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    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.  …

  • Celebrate Urban Backyards

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    Find out how the Detroit Zoological Society partnered with local organizations to create Celebrate Urban Backyards, which engages afterschool educators and students in hands-on, inquiry-based programs and activities…

  • Emerging Connections

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    Learn about an effective and affordable three-focus approach that brings together academia, the community, and the real world in a way that makes afterschool STEM enrichment available to a wide audience.  …

  • Engineering Design Challenge

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    Minnesota 4-H seeks to improve the quantity and quality of out-of-school STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) experiences for middle school–age youth. In 2013 the Minnesota STEM team, a statewide team of 4…

  • Inspiring STEM Interest Using Foldscope

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    The Gaining Options to College Collaborative (GO College) is a successful college mentoring program within the Erie, Pennsylvania, school district. It provides free, on-site, extracurricular resources for local high…

  • Do Children Make Good Citizen Scientists?

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    Participating in citizen science—where members of the public collect data for use by scientists—has become popular over the past 5 to 10 years, with teachers increasingly looking to incorporate citizen science into…

  • Fabricating Fidgets to Support Inclusive Maker Education

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    With the goal of supporting an inclusive maker education learning experience, a science museum, university, and middle school partnered to engage students diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)…

  • Accessible Making and Tinkering

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    Maker spaces and programs offer tremendous opportunities for all learners to explore new materials, expand their practical skills, think creatively, and exercise social-emotional skills such as problem-solving and…

  • The Maker Movement Is Everywhere, Including in the Current Issue of CSL

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    Editor Dennis Schatz welcomes you to the seventh issue of Connected Science Learning, focused on STEM learning experiences through making.     Everywhere I visit, STEM (science, technology, engineering,…

  • Through My Window

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    Through My Window is multimedia curriculum for grades 4–8 that integrates engineering, technology, literacy, and the arts.     Through My Window introduced our students to engineering. It not only…

  • Philly Scientists

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    The Philly Scientists project engages underserved youth in grades 5–8 and their educators in a curriculum that includes a mobile application with a digital badging reward system.     In 2014 the Obama…

  • Connecting Fossil Clubs With K–12 Teachers

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    FOSSILs4Teachers! is a professional development workshop that allows K–12 educators and museum paleontologists to collaborate on fossil resources and standards-aligned lesson plans about fossils.     Since…

  • Engaging Learners in Authentic Science With Environmental Data

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    Citizen science has long been touted as a way to engage in-school and out-of-school learners in authentic science, but the opportunities have largely been limited to collecting data. FieldScope from BSCS Science…

  • SciStarter

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    With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), SciStarter 2.0 was launched to enhance, diversify, and validate participant engagement in scientific research in need of the public’s help. SciStarter’s…

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