Aligning Needs: Integrating Citizen Science Efforts into Schools Through Service Requirements.

ABSTRACT: Citizen science is the participation in scientific research by members of the public, and it is an increasingly valuable tool for both scientists and educators. For researchers, citizen science is a means of more quickly investigating questions which would otherwise be time-consuming and costly to study. For educators, citizen science offers a means to engage students in actual research and improve learning outcomes. Since most citizen science projects are usually designed with research goals in mind, many lack the necessary educator materials for successful integration in a formal science education (FSE) setting. In an ideal world, researchers and educators would build the necessary materials together; however, many researchers lack the time, resources, and networks to create these materi

SUBMITTER: Tsueng G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667230 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature