Citizen Science
"Overview: This series looks at the Oxford Martin School's academics and how their research is making a difference to our global future. The series will be of interest to people who are concerned about the future for the planet, how civilisation will adapt to...
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Mapping Mangroves
"Overview: Mapping mangroves is a project dedicated to preservation and understanding of the world's mangrove forests. Through the use of Ushahidi, an open source project that allows for users to crowdsource data, partic...
Contested futures for lighting in urban spaces: drawing on ideas about messiness and resistance to inform lighting education strategies against light pollution. Author Mary-Anne Kyriakou
"Overview: The three-hour course draws on educational concepts of rethinking higher educational practices towards complexity modelling, messiness and to bring about resistance against reductive simple systems of governan...
Journey North: Monarch Butterflies Citizen Science
"Overview: Scientists rely on Citizen Scientists to track the migration of the monarch butterflies as they journey north from Mexico and back again. This amazing pollinator begins its fall migration from August to Novemb...
Bumble Bee Watch
"Overview: Bumble Bee Watch is a Citizen Science Project provided through the partnerships of The Xerces Society, the University of Ottawa, Wildlife Preservation Canada, BeeSpotter, The Natural History Museum, London, an...
Moon Zoo
"Overview: The goal of the Moon Zoo website is ""to provide detailed crater counts for as much of the Moon's surface as possible."" On the website, interested parties can help out with this effort by examining images of...
Welcome to OER Commons with the Bee Cause Project!
"Overview: If you want to learn how to build a strong foundation for your Bee Program, we’ve got you covered!Our most successful programs begin with layers of lessons, curricula, and labs to foster the excitement and lov...
Insight Citizen Science Project
"Overview: Insight is a free IOS app that was developed by Border Free Bees and Pollinator Partnerships to inspire and empower citizens including students age four and up to learn about North America's pollinators. When...
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble
"Overview: Roughly one hundred billion galaxies are scattered throughout our observable Universe, each a glorious system that might contain billions of stars. Many are remarkably beautiful, and the aim of Galaxy Zoo is t...
Old Weather: Our Weather's Past, The Climate's Future
"Overview: Help scientists recover worldwide weather observations made by Royal Navy ships around the time of World War I. These transcriptions will contribute to climate model projections and improve a database of weath...
Ancient Lives
"Overview: For classics scholars, the vast number of damaged and fragmentary texts from the waste dumps of Greco-Roman Egypt has resulted in a difficult and time-consuming endeavor, with each manuscript requiring a chara...
Introduction to Citizen Science
"Overview: Citizen Science is the involvement of everyday people in making scientific observations of the world around us. These observations address real world problems and contribute to scientific research projects. Ci...
The Milky Way Project
"Overview: Measure and Map Our Galaxy: The Milky Way Project needs your help looking through tens of thousands of images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. By telling us what you see in this infrared data, we can better u...
Climate Change & Bird Range
"Overview: Tule Springs Expedition Research Learning Center partners with our local Audubon Society Chapter to participate in the Climate Watch bird survey citizen science project. Citizen scientists across North America...
Population of Great Blue Heron in Curecanti
"Overview: Using data from the park, students analyze the great blue heron population living in Curecanti National Recreation Area from 1989-2019. Students identify potential limiting factors that influenced the sudden d...
Kids Becoming Scientists through Schoolyard Inquiry
"Overview: This article provides an overview of scientific inquiry and how citizen science programs run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology provide opportunities for inquiry about birds. Subject: Life Science Level: Lower...
Symbiosis in the Soil
"Overview: In this project, students will assume the role of citizen scientistshelping researchers answer questions about how dandelions acquire beneficial symbiotic microbes from different soil types. Students will col...
Planet Hunters
"Overview: On December 16, 2010, the Zooniverse launched the original Planet Hunters to enlist the public's help to search data from the NASA's Kepler spacecraft for the characteristic drop in light due to an orbiting ex...
Solar Stormwatch
"Overview: Solar scientists need you! Help them spot explosions on the Sun and track them across space to Earth. Your work will give astronauts an early warning if dangerous solar radiation is headed their way. And you c...
Project FeederWatch: Integrating Real-Time Science and Math
"Overview: This article discusses Project FeederWatch, a real-time citizen science project, and how elementary teachers can use this bird data to integrate math lessons and concepts. Subject: Life Science Level: Lower P...
The Great Sunflower Project
"Overview: The Great Sunflower Project is a great way to use Citizen Scientist's observations of bees nationwide to create an online map of the bee population with special attention given to sunflower pollinators. Your s...