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Welcome! On this page you will find programming, activities, and resources related to formal and informal education. Browse recent work on curricular materials: #education, and [subscribe](https://publiclab.org/unsubscribe/tag/education) to get updates on education ## How Can You Get Involved? We're looking to build a strong community of practice where educators of all experiences can share resources, knowledge, and lend a hand. Here are some ways that you can help build Public Lab's educational Community ### Join the Conversation Get notified about new #education posts by subscribing to related tags. Click the button below, and subscribe to tags like "education", "classroom", "lesson", as well as other topics that you're interested in. Subscribe ### Try These Lessons in Your Classroom and Share Your Experience After using one of these activities in person, let us know how it goes in the comments. We appreciate your feedback and encourage you to share how you modify the lesson to better fit your classroom. For more information about integrating Public Lab tools & methodologies, check out the resources available at [Public Lab for Educators.](https://publiclab.org/wiki/public-lab-for-teachers) ###Gulf Region: Community-based Citizen Science Projects Public Lab is excited to announce that with support from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research program we will be working on building the scientific capacity of the next generation. We're recruiting for our next round of educators through March 15, 2020. [Read more about the summer 2020 workshops here.](https://publiclab.org/notes/mimiss/01-10-2020/gulf-coast-educators-join-public-lab-this-summer-for-a-classroom-community-science-workshop) I'm interested! _Fill out this form if you're an educator interested in this project, or would like more information._ ________________ ## Activities Here are some different activities particularly suited for use in the classroom: [activities:education] Also see this page on [Air Quality Class](/wiki/air-quality-class) **** ## Questions [questions:education] ## Resources Check this [wiki](http://publiclab.org/wiki/funding-sources-for-science-teachers) that has some information on funding sources for science teachers.  **** ## Education group [people:education]...
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| mimiss | "Thanks for sharing! I'd love to learn more about your 1 on 1 conferencing, I think it's extremely important to the success of student projects. Do..." | Read more » | about 4 years ago | |||
| alexenderthomas55 | "A hoverboard was initially a fictional Segways board used for personal transportation, first described by author M. K. Joseph in 1967 and populariz..." | Read more » | about 4 years ago | |||
| lisa_graf | "Barriers: my own self! It was hard to not take ownership of some of the students' projects. Also, being ok with chaos as a process and that learnin..." | Read more » | about 4 years ago | |||
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| warren | "I'm going to order a couple of these fans to test this out: $11 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RT95Z1Y/ " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "Yes, and the aromatic baby powder is nice because you can smell it. Great idea. We're going to try prototyping this activity soon. With 3+ sensors,..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| mimiss | "I love the idea of using cocoa powder or powdered sugar to model this (out doors of course!). " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| crispinpierce | "@Warren I think this is an interesting way to show movement of fog droplets (10-20 um diameter, https://images.slideplayer.com/13/4090314/slides/sl..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "This is a cool idea esp. the site-planning with "buildings" or air barriers. I heard a good comment about this on Instagram too, where i'd posted -..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| silentsairam | "Great @warren : My responses, 1. planning the placement of sensors on a site: a) The site can be Indoor places(schools, office or outside space, ..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| mimiss | "This could be a great way to plan where to put your Simple Air sensor! You could build a mini model of the area you'd like to study with something ..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| nanocastro | "hi @warren I really like your setup... it remind me of these cool projects of visualization by Nerea Calvillo http://intheair.es/tools/physical-pro..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "@molangmuir10 @sadieprego @zengirl2 @nanocastro @mimiss I thought you might be interested in this! " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| satyam_cc_mpr | "click here to know for this answer " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| liz | " Also see articles in the Community Science Forum (formerly Grassroots Mapping Forum) https://publiclab.org/forum " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| mimiss | " Here's a place to start: https://publiclab.org/wiki/stories " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| mimiss | " Staining is used mostly with cells, both bacterial and eukaryotic (i.e. animal or plant cells) for better visualization. Stains can increase contr..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| Bronwen | " Can you give a quick pointer as to when (and why) to dye a sample for microscoping? Are there different kinds of samples that benefit from dye, or..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "Yes, the purple ones in these are with beet juice, although that time it was pickled beet juice, with vinegar, and maybe some garlic (yum): https:/..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| mimiss | "Do you have any photos of how the stains worked out? Or maybe notes on what concentrations of dye were too little/too much? " | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "We've used watercolors, like these, and they work well: https://www.amazon.com/Pebeo-Colorex-Watercolor-Bottle-Dropper/dp/B005MQODAA/ and https://w..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| ayushi_gupta | " Great post! I am actually getting ready to across this information, is very helpful my friend. Also great blog here with all of the valuable infor..." | Read more » | over 4 years ago | |||
| warren | "@pdhixenbaugh wrote this up for working with a group of teenagers on #coqui kits -- https://publiclab.org/notes/pdhixenbaugh/08-22-2018/diy-science..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "For example, one hour is pretty tight. If you introduced and started building the coqui one lesson, and finished building and tested water sources ..." | Read more » | about 5 years ago |