Educational & Outreach Resources
This page is curated and maintained by the The Education and Outreach Working Group
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:
- 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
Undergraduate Resources
Teaching Standards - National
- Next Generation Science Standards
- 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
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
TCN Websites and Social Media
- iDigBio: Website,iDigBio Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo