Citizen Science There are 28 items.
These activities empower patrons to contribute to real-world scientific research through citizen science projects. Activities focus on data collection, observation, and analysis, helping libraries engage communities in collaborative science learning.
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Toolkit Activity
Cloudscape
Using common craft materials, participants construct a sky scence with trees and buildings as reference points on the ground and cloud types ordered by altitude in the sky. 0
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Exploring Earth: Investigating Clouds
1 Review(s)In this hands-on activity, participants use isopropyl alcohol and other household materials to create a cloud in a bottle and explore it with laser light. Materials are available in English and Spanish. 996
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Cloud Teller
3 Review(s)Based on the popular fortune-telling game, this printable interactive craft and game familiarizes learners with cloud vocabulary and varying degrees of cloud cover. This activity could be printed and left for visitors to do on their own or to take with them. 5331
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SciGirls Cloud Clues Activity
This hands-on learning activity explores designing an experiment to categorize the opacity of different materials, extending the concept to real life and how the differing opacity of clouds can effect surface temperature. 0
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Estimating Cloud Cover
1 Review(s)Participants use their estimation and math skills to simulate a clear, isolated, scattered, broken, or overcast sky using blue construction paper and torn white paper shapes. Participants try to accurately guess the percentage of cloud cover for each other's simulations. 1493
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Wind Streamer
3 Review(s)Children create a wind streamer out of common materials and use it to determine the wind’s direction. 5493
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How-to Video Teacher's Guide Provides classroom connections, key concepts, connections to science standards, and additional resources. -
Clouds Above
1 Review(s)Children observe Earth clouds and discover that there are different kinds of clouds at the upper, middle, and lower levels of our atmosphere. 1330
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Windy City Tower
1 Review(s)Participants learn about lateral forces, strong building design, and wind tunnel testing as they plan out and make a paper tower that meets specific design constraints and withstands as much wind as possible without sliding or toppling over. 1804
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How-to Video Family Take-home Activity A take-home that can be sent with patrons that wish to do STEM activities at home. These at-home activities cover similar topic areas as the associated activity and could be handed out at the conclusion of a program or left on a circulation desk for patrons to take home. -
Surviving Storm Surge
2 Review(s)Children play the role of engineers as they build a model scene of a paper house on a play dough "coast" and inundate it with flood water to see if the house they made can withstand the rising tide. 2738
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How-to Video Family Take-home Activity A take-home that can be sent with patrons that wish to do STEM activities at home. These at-home activities cover similar topic areas as the associated activity and could be handed out at the conclusion of a program or left on a circulation desk for patrons to take home. -
Reflections on Ice: How We Look for Ice
Patrons travel to different stations to explore how different types of light interact with ice. 0
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Toolkit Activity
GLOBE Observer: Clouds
Citizen scientists of all ages are invited to make environmental observations that complement NASA satellite observations and help scientists studying Earth and the global environment. 0
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Taking Earth's Temperature
1 Review(s)Participants are introduced to a type of energy, infrared radiation, which we can’t see with our eyes but we can feel as heat. Then, they explore their outdoor environment using an infrared thermometer (also known as an IR thermometer) to measure the temperatures of concrete, asphalt, grass, and bare soil. 1730
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Implementation Guide Provides extensive background information, facilitation outline, materials shopping list, extended supporting media suggestions, correlations to national standards, and more.