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Kermish-Allen, Ruth; Peterman, Karen; Bevc, Christine – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
The field of citizen science is one of the fastest growing sectors in informal education, specifically because of the new opportunities that are now available within today's digitized and networked world. This paper describes a unique co-created citizen science project, WeatherBlur, which brought fishermen, elementary students, and teachers from…
Descriptors: Science Projects, Citizen Participation, Weather, Computer Mediated Communication
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Beach, Richard; O'Brien, David – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2015
This study examined 6th graders' use of the VoiceThread app as part of a science inquiry project on photosynthesis and carbon dioxide emissions in terms of their ability to engage in causal reasoning and their use of the affordances of multimodality, collaboration, interactivity, and connectivity. Students employed multimodal production using…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Science Instruction, Science Projects, Inquiry