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Bird, Erin Bridges; Ballard, Heidi L.; Harte, Margaret – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Youth-focused Community and Citizen Science (CCS) projects are contexts in which youth can contribute to the entire "data lifecycle"--from data-collection to decision-making with their scientific findings. But data alone does not contain the answers for what action to take and how. Using the educational context of an afterschool CCS bird…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Elementary School Students, Educational Change
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Bird, Erin Bridges; Harte, Peggy; Ballard, Heidi L. – Science and Children, 2020
"Citizen science" gives students a unique opportunity to engage with their own research, as well as data collected by other citizen scientists. Often, citizen science projects focus on students collecting and submitting data for scientists, which can sometimes limit opportunities to engage in the entire scientific process. This article…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods