Schoolyard SITES is a community partnership STEM teacher professional development program and research study at University of New Hampshire. The program partners elementary teachers with UNH Extension science volunteers to bring locally-relevant citizen science projects to K-5 students. Our research study examines the community-based partnership PD model and its impact on school teachers’ self-efficacy and their success in engaging students in the NGSS science practices through citizen science projects.
Gengarelly, L., Honwad, S., Glenn, M., Froburg, E., Clyde, M., & Andreozzi, H. (2023). Schoolyard SITES: School-community partnership to learn about teaching locally-relevant citizen science. In Blikstein, P., Van Aalst, J., Kizito, R., & Brennan, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 (pp. 1935-1936). Montreal, Canada: International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2023.