Stars, Strips and Acts of Science Citizen Science in Your Library for America 250 with SciStarter Originally Recorded August 25, 2025 Audience ARSL Event and Program Facilitators Topic Citizen Science Month 2026 & America 250 Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION This webinar is designed for event facilitators interested in adding citizen science to their offerings and […]
Read MoreSciStarter LIVE: How to Launch and Grow a Citizen Science Project with CitSci Originally Aired August 26, 2025 Audience Current project leaders, prospective project leaders Topic How to develop a citizen science project Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION Our event on August 26 focused on how to launch and grow a citizen science project with one […]
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Make Your Acts Count – A Kickoff for Event Facilitators Originally Aired August 20, 2025 Audience Event and Program Facilitators Topic Citizen Science Month 2026 & America 250 Watch the Webinar DESCRIPTION This webinar is designed for event facilitators interested in adding citizen science to their offerings and contributing to 2.5 Million Acts of Science […]
Read MoreEvery fall, declining day length triggers one of the most incredible phenomena found in nature: the annual fall migration of monarch butterflies. Across North America, monarchs undertake an epic journey – up to 3,000 miles – to reach their overwintering grounds in Mexico and the California coast. For the eastern population of monarchs, the migratory […]
Read MoreAround the world, millions of kids are headed back to school in a totally different way. Classes are online. Teachers talk to students in virtual classrooms. And parents are often left looking for new, hands-on science learning opportunities. We’ve got your back. Here are eight fun and easy science experiments that you can do at […]
Read MoreHow long does it take planets to form in solar systems? Since 2014, tens of thousands of volunteers have helped NASA try to answer this question by looking at telescope images of solar systems as their protoplanetary disks are still forming. NASA’s Disk Detectives is a citizen science project that enlists members of the public […]
Read MoreHow cool! Imagine if 1,000 people took a photo of the same landmark in a park, let’s say, over a set period of time. We’d realize what’s in that part of the park all the time and what’s there temporarily. Changes in nature (phenological changes, in particular) and other activities would be recorded and trended […]
Read MoreExcuse the shameless self-promotion but we couldn’t resist sharing this Tweet about SciStarter. like Kickstarter but for citizen science: SciStarter! scistarter.com simple, brilliant. — John Pavlus (@johnpavlus) February 8, 2012
Read MoreIf you ever needed convincing that math is beautiful, this movie by Spanish graphic animator Cristóbal Vila will do the trick. Set to a haunting piece by Belgian minimalist composer Wim Mertens, “Nature by Numbers” brings to life some of the fundamental math concepts that connect art and nature. Vila starts his exploration with the […]
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