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resource research Media and Technology
Poster on NSF DRL-1114690 (Spy Hounds) presented at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Kate Taylor
resource research Media and Technology
Poster on NSF DRL-1114515 (LOOP Production Season One) presented at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marisa Wolsky
resource research Media and Technology
Poster on NSF DRL-1010900 (Peep and The Big Wide World Season Five) presented at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Kate Taylor
resource research Media and Technology
Poster on NSF DRL-0917495 (Design Squad Nation) presented at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marisa Wolsky
resource research Afterschool Programs
Poster on NSF grant DRL-0813434 (Girls Energy Conservation Corps) presented at the 2012 ISE PI Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Gillian Puttick
resource research Afterschool Programs
Presentation on NSF grant DRL-0813434 (Girls Energy Conservation Corps) presented at the CAISE Convening on Sustainability Science and Informal Science Education, February 6th, 2012.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Gillian Puttick
resource research Park, Outdoor, and Garden Programs
A place-based approach to an inquiry unit on watersheds created opportunities for the development of student conceptions of the human and natural components of urban watersheds. Through direct inquiry experience in the natural environment, student learning and attachment to place was observed.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Shelley Stromholt
resource research Games, Simulations, and Interactives
Do video games have positive impacts on the academic K–12 curriculum? The authors of this paper conducted a literature review of more than 300 research articles on the use of video games in the classroom. Their analysis found minimal evidence that video games have positive effects on mathematics and science learning.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Fan Kong
resource evaluation Exhibitions
Professionals from the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), New Knowledge Organization, and faculty from Hunter College developed Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think (WM) as a traveling exhibition with ancillary programs about animal cognition to be presented in both science centers and zoos. The project primary goal is to develop public understanding of the complex concept of animal cognition. Its secondary objective is to encourage sustainable science center-zoo partnership in the communities that host Wild Minds. The Wild Minds science center exhibition consists of discreet stand-alone
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TEAM MEMBERS: Ellen Giusti New York Hall of Science John Fraser
resource evaluation Exhibitions
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM) contracted Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. (RK&A) to conduct a summative evaluation of the Mammoth Discovery! exhibition, one part of a comprehensive project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Mammoth Discovery! features the story of Lupe, fossilized mammoth bones found in San Jose and includes a full-size replica of Lupe and Lupe's actual skull, femur, and pelvis fossils. Through engagement with the exhibition, CDM intends for children and their caregivers to engage in scientific thinking, become aware that they are engaging in a
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TEAM MEMBERS: Randi Korn & Associates, Inc. Children's Discovery Museum
resource evaluation Media and Technology
In October 2009, the Tennessee Aquarium began an ambitious program, Connecting Tennessee to the World Ocean (CTWO), funded by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CTWO consists of several individual projects, all intended to increase the ocean literacy of Aquarium audiences and to promote their adoption of an ocean stewardship ethic. This evaluation report summarizes the extent to which the Aquarium accomplished these goals over the 3-year project period. The five project components and their key associated evaluation findings follow. 1. Classroom-based activities
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TEAM MEMBERS: Christopher Horne Tennessee Aquarium
resource evaluation Museum and Science Center Programs
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination is a National Science Foundation funded project which developed a national traveling exhibition on science and technology themes depicted in the Star Wars movies. The Museum of Science, Boston (MOS) developed the exhibition in collaboration with Lucasfilm Ltd. and Science Museum Exhibit Collaborative (SMEC). The exhibition will travel to members of the SMEC in Los Angeles, Portland, Fort Worth, St. Paul, Columbus, Philadelphia, and Boston. Other venues will display the exhibition after the Collaborative tour. Tisdal Consulting was contracted to
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TEAM MEMBERS: Carey Tisdal Museum of Science