Chemistry Projects

Students Discover

Students Discover offers free, high-quality curriculum to middle school science teachers around the world. These curriculum modules were created in partnership between scientists and educators to supp...

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citizen science
middle school
curriculum
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Citizen Science Track Trail

Self Guided Trail Brochure that provides opportunities for families to engage in Citizen Science activities such as measuring air temp and humidity, total dissolved solids, and pH testing in the fresh...

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Citizen Science
National Park
Carl Sandburg
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Status: active

Pulsar Search Collaboratory

High-school students throughout the United States analyze radio data from the Green Bank Telescope, the largest steerable telescope in the world, to search for exotic stars called pulsars.

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pulsars
astronomy
high-school
Status: active

Ectotherm ER: Frogs under the weather!

This is an educational module for middle and early high school age students that contains lessons about the links between climate change, animal physiology, and disease ecology. As part of the module...

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Amphibian
disease
climate
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Life in the Extreme

Students take measurements in the field, analyze their data, and develop hypotheses about how different micro-environments affect the distribution of plants and animals in the park.

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Experiencing
investigating and pondering
measuring environmental parameters drawing conclusions
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3dNaturalists and polliinator hotshots

National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (RCN) linking undergraduate students, diversity, and discovery using citizen science approaches: Yellowstone National Park and other protected...

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broadening participation
national parks
youth engagement
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A Coordinated Laboratory and Astronomical Study of the Progenitors of Dust Formation in Carbon-Rich AGB Stars and Oxygen-Rich Giants and Supergiants

A closely coordinated laboratory and astronomical study will be undertaken to identify the seeds of dust formation in three prototypical astronomical objects: a carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (AG...

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laboratory astrophysics
radio astronomy
evolved stars
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The Milky Way Project

Analyze thousands of infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy to help scientists understand how stars form and discover massive stars.

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Astronomy
citizen science
zooniverse
+1
Status: active

Genetics of Taste Lab

The Genetics of Taste Lab is a unique venue for both citizen science AND crowdsourcing genetics and health data related to taste. We have both educational and research-based goals. 1. We connect our c...

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genetics
taste
humans
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iEvolve with STEM (Inquiry and Engagement to Invigorate and Optimize Learning for Everyone with STEM)

This is an NSF Math Science Partnership project that is integrating student participation in citizen science research as a central part of classroom instruction in grades 3-8 in two medium-size school...

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pollinators
environmental science
soil science
+3
Status: active

Gulf Coast Health Alliance: health Risks related to the Macondo Spill (GC-HARMS)

From http://www.utmb.edu/GCHARMS/: GC-HARMS focuses on understanding the long-term health effects of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, resulting from the consumption of seafood contaminated by petrogenic Polyc...

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PAHs
longitudinal cohort
seafood contamination
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Status: active

2016 National Parks BioBlitz - Hopewell Furnace

The 2016 BioBlitz at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site will explore organisms form all taxonomic groups.

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BioBlitz
Citizen Science
Status: complete