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Are you looking for exciting ways to engage your 5th grade students in science? Have you wished you could teach science outdoors? Do you want quality, standards-aligned support materials created in collaboration with fellow North Carolina teachers that help you integrate authentic science into your classroom? Then TL4CS is for you!<\/p>\n
TL4CS stands for Supporting Teacher Learning for Effective School-Based Citizen Science, a National Science Foundation-backed project conducted by a team of North Carolina-based educators and researchers. Our goal is to discover what helps elementary school teachers bring citizen science into their classrooms to engage students with standards-aligned science content and practices. We have created a series of supports that can help you incorporate two citizen science projects into your instruction: the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS<\/a>) project (focused on weather and precipitation), and The Lost Ladybug Project<\/a> (focused on ecosystems and biodiversity).<\/p>\n Our site is divided into two sections, one for CoCoRaHS and one for the Lost Ladybug Project. Each contains a suggested yearlong sequence of lessons (one per month) aligned with the project to support your planning. The resources are flexibly designed for you to use as you see fit and as a complement to what you\u2019re already teaching in your classroom, not an add on. The materials include monthly activities to keep your students engaged in the projects throughout the school year, guidance on collecting high-quality data for scientists, supports for interdisciplinary connections, media resources to use with students, content sources for deepening your own understanding, and examples of how this might look in practice. <\/span><\/p>\n Incorporating citizen science projects into the classroom offers students an opportunity to authentically participate in science. They are able to collect and analyze data that are relevant to them and their local communities while also sharing what they discover with real scientists who use their data to advance our understanding of our world. We know from our work that this is a great approach to doing science in K-12 classrooms, but don\u2019t take our word for it!\u00a0 Teachers involved in our project had this to say:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEvery morning, students are excited to check the rain gauge!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cStudents enjoy the responsibility of going outside to collect data.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAll of the data analysis that you can do with CoCoRaHS is going to be so important with these new standards \u201cMy students developed an obsession with ladybugs, and it has been so cool to see their excitement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n CoCoRaHS<\/a> and the Lost Ladybug Project<\/a> are citizen science projects that are independent from the TL4CS project. Each has their own website where all participants will enter and access data, and their resources are aimed largely at non-school participants. TL4CS offers additional materials for each of these projects beyond what is available on the citizen science project websites, designed specifically with teachers and students in mind. 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Citizen scientists are an essential part of this type of science and generate new information that contributes to real scientific research efforts. In fact, the work often cannot be done at all without citizen scientist participation! Citizen scientists make it possible to collect data at very large spatial and temporal scales. 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Why should I include a project like this in my instruction?<\/b><\/h4>\n
because there is so much data analysis (graphing, tracking, and comparing things) that the kids will have to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/b><\/h4>\n
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What\u2019s the difference between TL4CS, CoCoRaHS, and the Lost Ladybug Project?<\/b><\/h4>\n
What is Citizen Science?<\/h4>\n
Citizen science is a partnership between the public and professional scientists to answer scientific questions together. <\/h3>\n
TEDxgreensboro: Caren Cooper<\/h4>\n
Citizen Science: Everybody Counts<\/h3>\n