Citizen Science Framing and Delivery Models: Impacts on Young People’s Environmental Science Learning

Abstract

Read about a case study that examines how a UK-based marine citizen science project impacts student learning outcomes.

Keywords:

• Informal Education
• Citizen Science
• Environmental Science
• Learning Progression
• Research

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Acknowledgments

This material is based upon work supported under a collaboration between the National Science Foundation (NSF), Wellcome, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via a grant from the NSF (NSF grant no. 1647276) and a grant from Wellcome with ESRC (Wellcome grant no. 206202/Z/17/Z). Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of NSF, Wellcome, or ESRC.

We obtained parental consent and followed an ethical protocol approved by The Open University Human Research Ethics Committee (reference number: HREC/3003/Herodotou) and by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of California, Davis (reference number: 624197-13).

The authors would like to thank the participating youth, their group leaders and their families, as well as the LEARN CitSci team members. We would also like to thank the Big Seaweed Search team, especially Prof Juliet Brodie at the Natural History Museum and our collaborators at the Marine Conservation Society who helped facilitate this study.

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Notes on contributors

Jessica Wardlaw

Jessica Wardlaw is Citizen Science Programme Developer, at the Natural History Museum in London.

Ana Benavides-Lahnstein

Ana Benavides-Lahnstein is a Postdoctoral Researcher, at the Natural History Museum in London.

Lucy Robinson

Lucy Robinson is Citizen Science Manager, at the Natural History Museum in London.

Julia Lorke

Sasha Pratt-Taweh is Project Coordination Officer, and at the Natural History Museum in London.

Sasha Pratt-Taweh

Victoria Burton is Project Coordinator, at the Natural History Museum in London.

Maryam Ghadiri Khanaposhtani

Julia Lorke is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Natural History Museum in London, formerly at IPN–Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education.

Heidi Ballard

Maryam Ghadiri Khanaposhtani is a Postdoctoral Researcher, and

Victoria Burton

Heidi Ballard is Professor of Environmental Science Education, both at the University of California, Davis.