E&O Working Group

Overview of the Education and Outreach Working Group

The E&O Working Group currently consists of 13 members from the HUB (University of Florida and Florida State University).

Mission & Scope

This working group will:

• Coordinate Education and Outreach activities
• Communicate with TCNs
• Develop activities of interest to the HUB and TCNs
• Establish regular communication with one Education and Outreach point person from each TCN
• Plan for, and implement, Education and Outreach Workshop
• Facilitate common goals

Members

• Reed Beaman, FLMNH
• Cathy Bester, FLMNH
• Betty Dunckel, FLMNH
• Shari Ellis, FLMNH
• Libby Ellwood, FSU
• Austin Hendy, FLMNH
• David Jennings, FLMNH
• Kevin Love, FLMNH
• Bruce MacFadden, FLMNH
• Marcia Mardis, FSU
• Austin Mast, FSU
• Deb Paul, FSU
• Gil Nelson, FSU

E&O Online Resources

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

Understanding Science
Understanding Evolution
Aim-Up - Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs

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

The Center for Essential Science is the collaboration website: http://essentialscience.umich.edu/essentialscience/projects

The BioKIDS project website is here:

• BioKIDS The curriculum resources haven't been maintained recently, we're looking for a publisher to take them on.
• The Critter Catalog Re-presented data from the Animal Diversity Web re-written for a younger audience:
• App Our app is here (it's about to be updated for iOS 7 and with some corrections/revisions)

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

California

Facebook Pages

iDigBio

E&O WG Meeting Notes

See what we are up to in the E&O WG:

• E&O WG notes 20 August 2013

HUB Resources for the E&O WG

• Marketing and PR Resources