Educational & Outreach Resources

This page is curated and maintained by the The Education and Outreach Working Group

Places to Share Educational Materials and Resources

• Gooru
• National Science Teachers Association
• AP Biology Teacher Community
• Arizona State University Professional Learning Library
• Council for Advancement and Support of Education
• Open Educational Resources
• The National Science Digital Library
• TeacherTube For videos.

Meetings and Conferences to Disseminate E&O Resources and Materials

National

• National Science Teachers Association Have annual national conferences and several regional conferences each year.

Regional

• League of Environmental Educators in Florida Have annual meetings.
• FCR-STEM

Educational Theory and Literature For Collections-Based Learning

• Revolutionizing the Use of Natural History Collections in Education Powers, K.E.; Prather, A.; Cook, J.A.; Monfils, A.K.; Dierwald, P. Science Education Review, 2014.
• BioDiversifying the Curriculum Liu, D.; CBE Life Sci Educ Vol. 8 No. 2 100-107 (2009)
  

• Bringing the Museum into the Classroom Gano, S.; Kinzler, R.; Science Vol. 331 No. 6020 pp. 1028-1029 (2011)
  

• The Current State of Citizen Science as a Tool for Ecological Research and Public Engagement Dickinson, Janis L; Shirk, Jennifer; Bonter, David; Bonney, Rick; Crain, Rhiannon L.; Martin, Jason; Phillips, Tina; and Purcell, Karen. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 291–297 (2012)
  

• Missing "Links" in Bioinformatics Education: Expanding Students' Conceptions of Bioinformatics Using a Biodiversity Database of Living and Fossil Reef Corals Nehm, Ross H.; Budd, Ann F.; American Biology Teacher, Vol. 68 No.7 p91-97 (2006)
  

• The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society Suarez, A.; Tsutsui, N. BioScience Vol. 54 No. 1 66-75 (2004)
  

• Great articles from Jisc (used to be Joint Information Systems Committee) - just a sample:
  • How digitised 'special' collections are boosting experiences of teaching and learning from JISC
  • Turn your data into a story

• Teaching science and indigenous cultures:http://livingknowledge.anu.edu.au/html/educators/02_questions.htm

• Connecting Diverse and Indigenous populations with Collections/Science Connecting natural history collections with GED Adult learners

• Barnhardt, R., & Kawagley, A. O. (2005). Indigenous knowledge systems and Alaska Native ways of knowing.Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36(1), pp. 8-23. Retrieved online 12/13/13

• Basham, M. (2012) Pathways of knowing: Integrating citizen science and critical thinking in the adult ELL classroom

• Undergraduate Biology Education Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education

• Teaching Environmental Concepts with Bird Observation Data
• Social media – unleashing museum collections and their curators

Undergraduate Resources

• Data Literacy Resources for Undergraduate Students

Teaching Standards - National

• Next Generation Science Standards
  • 3 Dimensions of Learning
• NSTA - National Science Teachers Association
• NARST - National Association for Research in Science Teaching
• ASTC - Association of Science-Technology Centers
• National Board for Professional Standards
• Common Core State Standards Initiative

Teaching Standards - Regional

California

Online Resources

• Libraries of Life
• Understanding Science
• Understanding Evolution
• Aim-Up - Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs
• BioKIDS
  • The Critter Catalog Re-presented data from the Animal Diversity Web re-written for a younger audience:
  • App biokids app (it's about to be updated for iOS 7 and with some corrections/revisions)
  • The Center for Essential Science is the collaboration website: http://essentialscience.umich.edu/essentialscience/projects

• Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections
• The Student's Discover project is looking for more museum partners! Contact Rob Dunn rrdunn@ncsu.edu for more information.
• Animal Diversity Web
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Frontiers for Young Minds: Science edited for kids, by kids.
• Virtualfieldwork.org
• Shape of Life

Citizen Science

• WeDigBio
• Notes From Nature
• Pl@ntNet Project
• DigiVol
• Herbaria @ Home
• Smithsonian Transcription Center
• iNaturalist

• Federal Community of Practice for Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science

TCN Websites and Social Media

• iDigBio: Website,iDigBio Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo

• MiCC (Microfungi): Website, Facebook, Instagram

• EPICC: Twitter

• GLI:Website

• InvertEBAse: Website

• FIC: Website, Facebook, Twitter

• SERNEC: Website

• MHC (macroalgae): Website

• NEVP: Website

• PaleoNiches: *Digital Atlas of Ancient Life Website Get the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life App!

• Macrofungi:Website

• SCAN:Website

• InvertNet: Website

• TTD: Website, Facebook

• LBCC: Website

PR Resources for the E&O WG

• Marketing and PR Resources