Although citizen science is a relatively new construct, educators around the globe see its value as a tool to engage students and their parents. Increasing numbers of student scientists have meant more labor that needs to be met up with scientific need. This has prompted organizations like SciStarter.com (@SciStarter) to come up with simpler solutions for teachers and parents to help students find organizations and projects to be a part of. Darlene Cavalier (@scicheer), shared this amazing slide show that provides research and resources for those interested in including citizen science into their curriculum. To read our featured citizen science article on EDUCATION INSIDER ("Is Citizen Science Changing the Face of STEM Education? Lessons from #CitSci2015"), visit: http://blog.iat.com/

1. Darlene Cavalier
www.scistarter.com
Real science we can do together.

2. Citizen Science
connects
people
to
real science
they can do.

3. Millions of people
enjoy
science and
nature.
Thousands of
scientists need
volunteers.
But they can’t
find each other.

4. We
connect
them
Scientist image
and cit scientist
images tk to
illustrate “we
connect them”
We
connect
them

5. Organized, searchable inventory of projects.
Partners include Citizen Science Association, Discover, PLOS, NSTA. WHYY.
Matchmaker to help researchers connect with communities.

6. Someone you know is a
CITIZEN SCIENTIST
eBird
1.5 million
reports
Water testing
1.5 million
monitors
SETI@ home
5 million
volunteers

7. Accelerating
analysis of
tumor samples
in huge
datasets.
Forecasting
solar activity
that poses
radiation risks
to humans and
hardware in
space.
Analyzing wild
algae species
for their
potential to
produce
biofuels.
Citizen Science IS Serious Science.

8. Citizen Science in Diverse!
Put YOUR citizen science experiment in space.
DIYers + Space Enthusiasts.

9. University of Waterloo’s Snow Tweets
goal Help researchers calibrate accuracy of snow measurement tools
task Measure snow where you are, tweet or upload your geotagged data

10. www.SpaceMicrobes.org

11. We
connect
them
Partner up!
Crowdsource
the
crowdsourcing.

12. Reach new audiences.

13. “Each vertical bar is one shoe or cell phone. The color
represents a different species of bacteria.”

14. From citizen science to citizen policy.

16. Informing NASA’s Asteroid
Initiative: A Citizen Forum
ECASTonline.org

17. Connect communities of citizen scientists
and fields of research.
-Protocols, Methodologies
-Data collection/classification, sharing, visualization tools
-Privacy
-Recruitment, persistence (incentives, motivations)
-Open data sets
-Evaluation tools
-Best practices, case studies

18. Connect communities of citizen scientists
and fields of research.
Informal survey of 200 SciStarter community
members
50% are active in more than one citizen science
project, most of which require unique log-ins
74% of those are involved in projects on different
topics
84% would like to know how to access their data once
they submit it to a project

19. Prototype an online, personal dashboard for
participants to:
• Track their projects, participation, and
contributions to science
• Share and save data
• Record interests in projects
• Create profiles
• Find people and projects of interest to them