Starting Line up Share reasons and rationale for involving
students in authentic data collection Examine several sources of
downloadable data from citizen science projects and state/national
agencies Investigate a real problem using data overlays and
sampling to guide decision making
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Place Based Education (PBE) is a vehicle that uses local
community resources to drive investigative science; PBE connects
disciplines, encourages dialog, engages civic partners and empowers
student self- direction.
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Benefits to Community The public is informed of scientific
results and engaged in the outcomes through ownership of their own
contributions. You cant love what you dont know- Tom Earnhardt
Place Based Citizen Science programs can change public perceptions
of the natural world, promote interaction with nature, and engage
the community in the management of natural resources. Collected
data can become part of a larger database to better understand
regional and global trends Community voice is valued and can become
an engine of change
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Foundation for IHE Partnerships Assist Researchers with
outreach opportunitie. Data can be collected by the school and
submitted via online survey instruments, or materials can be
collected and delivered to researchers. Scientists benefit from
data collected over a large area, or over a long period of time.
Data and materials can also be collected from areas that are
normally difficult to access, such as private property.
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WIN WIN for STEM Program Extending beyond education and
interpretation by providing research stations on your facility Your
facility gains credibility as a destination that provides authentic
STEM education activities Provides opportunities for volunteers,
workshops and activities service learning PBE can strongly
influence the attitudes and behavior of individuals and groups
towards your program
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Benefits to Students Captures interest early on and sparks a
life-long passion for science Self-discovery, learning to
collaborate with others to solve problems, creating strategies for
direction and designing solutions See themselves as real
scientists, technologists, engineers, or mathematicians
particularly as they interact with experts from community
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Finding the Groove Using existing citizen science data sets to
identify trends, analyze and decide on display, practice graphing
techniques, communicate results Creating your own research
project
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Web Citizen Science Projects
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Globe Project Data www.globe.gov
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Data choices
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This data comes from the Global Historical Climatology Network
managed by the National Climatic Data Center (off the www.globe.gov
website) Download the KMZ file - CISLdata.kmz
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Only Temperature Stations Zoomed in Download the CSV file open
in Excel
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Using data to guide inquiry Examine historical dataset from
Edenton Discuss with partner what trends you see What would be your
inquiry question? Decide what might be interesting to graph What
other data might complement this data set to further explain the
temperature observations? How can analysis of internet data drive
local data collection?
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The Right Combination Designing and supporting local
Place-Based Education projects Model the investigation of a real
problem using data overlays and sampling to guide decision
making
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PBE Project Design Choose a Scientific Question Form an team:
scientist/educator/technology/evaluator Develop, test, refine
protocols, data forms and educational support materials Recruit and
Train participants Accept, edit and display data Analyze and
interpret data Disseminate the results and outcomes
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Additional Thoughts Look for an existing project that has gone
through the trial-and-error phase. Research environmental groups in
your surrounding area, then partner with them to create your own
projects. Be clear about your expectations and goals with your
scientific partners and with participants Make sure the project
allows for inquiry-based learning. Find a hands-on task that sparks
their interest but doesnt scare them or compromise their safety.
Mix up the learning experience by bringing in scientific speakers
or attending events
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The School Yard Garden Project
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How can School Yard Garden Projects be transformed into Citizen
Science/ Place Based Learning projects? What are some Need to Know
Questions?
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Create a public GIS account (FREE) do this by NOT subscribing
to 30-day Free trial, but creating a public account
https://www.arcgis.com/home/signin.html
https://www.arcgis.com/home/signin.html
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Pat this is where we will do the small group activity where
they will look at overlays that mimic a GIS I am going to use
transparencies, with local GIS data from ONSLOW I took the liberty
of drawing in some fake potential garden areas on the GIS Maps
(working on these now). The data (overlays) will include pertinent
georeferenced files from your school area, soil types,
evapotranspiration rates, potential rainfall and/or drought
monitioring for crops, length of growing
season,topography(drainage) and a few other goodies. I would like
them also to test a soil sample from each potential site for pH so
we need at least six pH meters with Labquests (3 stations but we
may have to duplicate so we have 6 total stations so there will be
in essence 3 different garden sites, one group will have to
investigate and report out about one site, etc, ). They will use
the GIS transparencies to decide positive and negative attributes
about their garden site. And they will also test the soil for pH
(real life ground truthing). I can bring doctored soil samples so
we get some interesting results. We may also want to provide a
result sheet for NPK tests for each site what do you think?
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