... inquiry journaling poetry citizen science While climate change is a topic that should be taught in middle and high school science classes, many teachers struggle to make the subject relevant and reduce areas of controversy. While scholarly, scientific articles related to the effects of climate...

...Thomas Edison E. dela Cruz; Carlo Oliver M. Olayta Citizen science is a research collaboration between scientists and volunteers who provide data for education, conservation, and environmental protection. Volunteers, often the locals in the area, provide data on species occurrence while researchers...

..., an international citizen science–based mosquito surveillance program exploring mosquitoes and the pathogens they may transmit to interested community members (including students and teachers) and their companion animals. This project is a stand-alone or follow-up lesson plan to the mosquito egg collection lesson...

... Authority, 2012 ; FAO, 2017 ), but the involvement and engagement of the society at large is critical to the success of these interventions. In this context, citizen science can play a relevant role. Citizen science can be broadly defined as the active participation of nonexperts in scientific research...

... to act may lead to active and responsible citizenship. We developed a biodiversity education teaching unit to promote biodiversity literacy through formal education. To make the topic of biodiversity tangible for students, our approach involves them in a citizen science project and uses the forest...

...Jeff Eble; John Pecore Student participation in authentic research, as citizen scientists, can improve classroom engagement, achievement of learning objectives, and perceptions of science. We present DNA barcoding of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) prey as an example student citizen-science...

... for researchers, and increased large-scale data availability, leading to a better understanding of ecological phenomena. Citizen science crowdsourcing volunteer long-term data Developing a comprehensive understanding of ecological phenomena often requires documenting patterns through time. Processes...

... individuals) to collect real data and contribute to a research project is the definition of citizen science. Recent disease outbreaks of mosquito-transmitted pathogens (West Nile, eastern equine encephalitis, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika) demonstrate the need to educate children and adults about the public...