Interested in learning more about the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and Doing it Together Science (DITOs) Student Challenge? Here is a presentation from the workshop, "Synergies between Citizen Science and Education" in Leysin, Switzerland in March 2018, that delves into the turning scientific documentation in the classroom into creative science communication for an external audience. The challenge encourages students and teachers who have participated in a citizen science or inquiry-based project in or around the classroom to take their scientific methods and results and share a creative multimedia story!

1. Student
Citizen Science
Challenge
Storytelling for Science
https://ecsa.citizen-science.net/student-citizen-science-challenge/about-the-student-challenge

2. A Europe-wide online Challenge
To promote engagement with citizen science and to
encourage student-led inquiry and exploration in and
around the classroom.
Mar - April
Pilot Round
Sept - Oct
Fall Round
Mar - Apr
Spring Round
2018 2019
Student-led inquiry and exploration

3. Science Storytelling
To creatively share visual & multimedia stories, where
students have engaged with scientific questions on the
theme of sustainability or environmental change.
visual & multimedia

4. Narrative Atlas, hosting the Challenge
https://narrativeatlas.ushahidi.io/views/map

5. The
Scientific
Process
Inquire:
Ask a
Question
Research
your
Question
Develop a
Hypothesis
Design an
Experiment
Collect and
Analyze
Results
Observe &
Explore
Construct a
Conclusion
Construct a
Conclusion

6. The
Scientific
Process
Inquire:
Ask a
Question
Research
your
Question
Develop a
Hypothesis
Design an
Experiment
Collect and
Analyze
Results
Observe &
Explore
Construct a
Conclusion
Construct a
Conclusion
For
whom?
Why?
Should the
conclusion always
be in a scientific
report?

7. Scientific
Documentation
Science
Communication
● Good scientific
practices
● For students
themselves, groups of
students, or for
teachers
● Good communication
practices
● For external audiences,
not just the teacher or
classroom audience

8. Science Storytelling?
What
medium?
Who are the
characters?
The setting? The plot?

9. http://narrativeatlas.org/#resources

10. http://narrativeatlas.org/#resources
What are
the key
points you
want to
share?
How?
Who is
the
audience?
How do
you reach
them?

11. Characters:
- BEES, Afterschool Group
- Honey bees living on an urban rooftop farm
- Butterflies in the neighborhood park
- The wind coming off of the East River
Setting:
- The schoolyard block
- An urban rooftop farm
Plot:
- Research: how does seed dispersal happen
on our Brooklyn block?
- Who visits our school flower bushes?
An observation.
- Creating our own seeds: A Seed Dispersal
Gallery
Example) Urban Seed Dispersal: Brooklyn Edition

12. Student-led
inquiry and
exploration?
Ownership
Structure vs.
Choice
Time
Restraints &
Practicality

13. https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50620/how-to-ease-students-into-independent-inquiry-projects

14. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 709443.
Thank You!
Gina Maskell
gina.maskell@mfn.berlin
@TogetherSci @EuCitSci