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Citizen Science

Published on Feb 04, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Citizen Science

Real Science Research in YOUR Classroom

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Slides: bit.ly/ICECITSCI
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DeepMoji: deepmoji.mit.edu
Click Teach AI

Slides are located at bit.ly/ICECITSCI
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As we get started, try out a citizen science project: DeepMoji. Visit https://deepmoji.mit.edu/contribute/home/

About Me

about.me/elizabethshutters

Contact Beth:
Director of Technology & PD at Roycemore School
about.me/elizabethshutters
Twitter: @shnology

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About You

What do you teach? What is your experience with citizen science? What do you want to know?

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Snapshot Serengeti

My first encounter with Cit Sci was reading about it in an ed tech newsletter, then trying out Snapshot Serengeti in 2015: https://www.snapshotserengeti.org/

Discovering Citizen Science 2015

I taught a 3-week citizen science course for rising 3rd and 4th grade students during the summer of 2015.

Our blog: http://discovercitsci.weebly.com/
Our class Twitter: @DiscoveryCitSci

What does a scientist look like?

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kids probably won't have the same stereotype of what a scientist looks like as adults- anyone can be a scientist!

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Citizen Science means
we can all be scientists!

Citizen science means we can all be scientists, and can contribute to real research.

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What is Citizen Science?

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What is Citizen Science?

"Citizen science is all about when a (person) has too much work to do by himself or herself, they have to ask a citizen to help." -3rd grade student

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"Citizen science is when normal people help scientists gather information to figure out something that scientists want to know." -4th grade student

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Types of Cit Sci

Data Analysis
Data Collection
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Sorting seafloor images

Imagine the need to organize thousands of times this many images.

Lesson plan from Zooteach:
http://www.zooteach.org/lessons/93-exploring-citizen-science-with-seafloor-...

Seafloor Explorer project: https://www.seafloorexplorer.org/

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Many hands make light work.

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Seafloor Explorer

A Zooniverse Project

Seafloor Explorer: http://www.seafloorexplorer.org/ (no longer needs data analysis, but there are several similar projects)

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Why?

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DeepMoji

Explore DeepMoji & teach AI by sharing about your own Tweets: https://deepmoji.mit.edu/ (contributing is optional; you will need to link your Twitter account to contribute)

Link to Video: https://youtu.be/u_JwYxtjzUs

Play Video

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Anyone can participate

My daughter and I like to take walks and use the iNaturalist app.

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My husband has made over 9,000 classifications since I introduced him to cit sci (mostly on his train commute).

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Hanny's Voorwerp

In 2008, a Danish schoolteacher named Hanny Van Arkel discovered a new type of galaxy object never before seen, via Galaxy Zoo, Zooniverse project in which volunteers are asked questions about galaxy images.
Read more here: http://www.hannysvoorwerp.com/

Photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

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"As a volunteer on these websites, both you and your students can become citizen scientists and citizen researchers, participating in real science and other research."

from Zooniverse.org's Get Involved- Education page: https://www.zooniverse.org/get-involved/education

Zooniverse offers mainly information analysis/categorization projects.

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NGSS and Citizen Science

from "NGSS & Citizen Science" from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.birdsleuth.org/ngss-and-citizen-science/

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NGSS and citizen science both offer structure for achieving the exploratory nature of science in the classroom.

from "NGSS & Citizen Science" from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.birdsleuth.org/ngss-and-citizen-science/

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Someone's life may depend on it

How we'll fight the next deadly virus | Pardis Sabeti
4:40 - 6:05

Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8RxjxdUulE

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For most of the subjects shown in Zooniverse projects, the researchers don't know the correct answer and that's why they need your help.

from Zooniverse.org's About page: https://www.zooniverse.org/about

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Getting Started

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Zooniverse

World's largest platform for people-powered research

Get started with any Zooniverse project easily by visiting the Project page: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects. New projects are added often.
There are a few non-science projects too!

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favorite Zooniverse Projects

Snapshot Serengeti *
Plankton Portal *
Planet 4 Terrains
Chicago Wildlife Watch *
Penguin Watch

Access these projects from the Zooniverse Projects page: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects

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ZooTeach

Lesson plans to complement Zooniverse Projects

http://www.zooteach.org/

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Students Discover

Projects & Lesson Plans

"Students Discover offers free, high-quality curriculum to middle school science teachers around the world." http://studentsdiscover.org/

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SciStarter

Science we can do together

SciStarter: http://scistarter.com
Start with the project finder: http://scistarter.com/finder

Sign up for the newsletter from the main page (most recent newsletter highlighted Valentine's Day projects!).

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BirdSleuth K-12

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

BirdSleuth K-12 from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: http://www.birdsleuth.org/

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Adler Planetarium

and Zooniverse

The Adler started Zooniverse in 2007 with Oxford University. Many universe citizen science projects can be completed during a visit to the Adler. Learn more here: https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/citizen-science/

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Cit Sci Apps

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Cit Sci Apps

iNaturalist
Journey North
GLOBE Observer
The Great Brain Experiment

Photo by Bruno Belcastro

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PBS Documentary
Visit http://crowdandcloud.org/ for resources and episodes.

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National Citizen Science Day

April 14, 2018

Search for an event: https://scistarter.com/citizen-science-day
List of many event ideas:
http://citizenscience.org/events/citizen-science-day/

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Favorite Projects

A few favorite and notable projects.

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Projects that helped beat cancer with mobile app games!
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/citizen-science
And check out other cancer research projects here: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/citizen-science/the-projects#cit...

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Sound Around You

http://www.soundaroundyou.com/ - app no longer available, but website has recordings submitted from around the world

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Smithsonian Transcription Center

https://transcription.si.edu

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Project Noah

http://www.projectnoah.org/
app no longer available, but website has many resources

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iNaturalist

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/
Or use the app!

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Globe Observer: Clouds

Students cloud observations online

https://observer.globe.gov/
Use GLOBE Observer app. Also try checking out the Data Analysis page: https://observer.globe.gov/science-connections/eclipse2017/data-analysis

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Classroom Applications

A few ways that we expanded on the cit sci projects.

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Scientist Visits

and Skype sessions

We were fortunate to have 3 scientist "visits" during our summer session. I highly recommend getting in touch with scientists from any project you are planning on using in your classroom; they are generally happy to connect with their citizens!

We did a few practice Skype sessions first: one with another class in our building, one as a Mystery Skype with a class in a different state.

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