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How Do You Maintain Science Learning While on Summer Break? Citizen Science

Posted by on June 25th, 2018 Posted in: Blog, Data
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With summer break on the horizon, the question becomes what can I do with my kids that is entertaining and keeps their curiosity?  The answer is citizen science.

This is where data collection and/or analysis is distributed to members of the public –  kids, adults – collect the data.  Or on rainy days, data, such as images of space, are made available to the public and you can be the scientist and analyze it.  From a data perspective, citizen scientist information is useful for gathering observational data in many locations at the same time or for performing pattern analysis.

There are many projects:

If you want to stay local or are going on a trip you can still be a citizen scientist. The great news is these activities can be done anywhere by anyone so there is no reason for the kids to say “I’m bored” instead have them be a citizen scientist for a day, a week or for the summer.

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This has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012347 with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School.

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