Citizen scientist

Preparing my talk about Citizen science and how we can understand it, both as creating trails and as images, I sketched up a scientist in a boat with just one oar

Curious how you can become a citizen scientist? Discover 20 ways to help save the planet and get involved as a citizen scientist.

Interested in taking your family's connection to nature to the next level? Check out these opportunities to participate in Citizen Science: a way for anyone of any age or ability level to participate in data collection for real science about the natural world. Whether you want to help save a species, enlist experts to help you identify plants and animals, provide data for real science, provide your child or students with a meaningful educational experience, or simply engage your tech-savvy…

Citizen Science is when members of the public get involved with scientific research by designing experiments and collecting, sorting and analysing

Get involved in real life science projects with these hands-on opportunities available to kids & families to do at home or in a classroom!

A Scientist's Guide to Citizen Science: The wonderful rouzejp was kind enough to translate this guide into French. Read it here! Le merveilleux rouzejp a eu la gentillesse de traduire ce guide en français. Lisez-le ici! Citizen science is all the rage right now, as it should be! However…

A self-paced online guide to applying nature’s lessons to design challenges.

Journey in a Day: Think Like a Citizen Scientist, C/S/A

Inspire learners to explore National Geographic through interactive lesson plans, maps, storytelling and a wide variety of resources to illuminate their world.

What is a Citizen Scientist There are literally hundreds of research projects being conducted all over the world and scientists are looking for help from everyday citizens. Just a google search of "citizen scientist" will

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The U.S. National Weather Service is naming a whole new award after him.

One of the keys to our scientific community is the concept of Peer Review. When important discoveries are made, the work is reviewed by others accomplished in the same field to test the findings. This...

Think Like a Citizen Scientist is one of the newer STEM Journies GSUSA put out in the last few years. This post is an attempt to summarize the lengthy VTK plans into an easy-to-read quick resource. Once you have decided to lead the Journey at a particular level, I highly recommend reviewing the VTK plans and their talking points. I also recommend going to the GSUSA store and downloading the (at this writing) free packet for this Journey. It does the best job of explaining the TAP process of…

The idea is simple: download the iNaturalist App and upload photos of species you encounter while exploring parks in British Columbia this summer.

After participating in a couple of local bird counts, I am hooked on what we can do as amateur naturalists to be citizen scientists. The National Environmental Education foundation shared the following ideas of how citizen scientists might be involved and the impact we make: source Here are a few ways to be involved in Citizen Science activities locally and on the national level: Project Squirrel has information on squirrels, opportunities to share squirrel photos, and encourages us to…

When scientists conduct a study, they have to gather vast amounts of data. You can help by observing nature in your own backyard, recording what you see, and submitting it for inclusion in a project. Read on for 5 opportunities to be a citizen scientist now on Gardener’s Path. #citizenscience #gardening #gardenerspath