{"id":13495,"date":"2017-08-21T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2024-10-26T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T17:15:39","slug":"citizenscienceesl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/citizenscienceesl\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Citizen Science Projects for ELLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nOur \u00a0students can use the Internet to learn English in exciting ways with people around the world. Recently we conducted a webinar about Citizen Science Projects for ELLs.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/citizen_science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Citizen science<\/a> is scientific work conducted by the general public often in collaboration with or guided by\u00a0professional scientists and institutions. Citizen science projects aren&#8217;t only about science. Some are about language, dictionaries, human behavior, psychology, and other topics. Students enhance their reading, writing, listening and speaking skills while doing digital research. More importantly, students see their learning make a real impact on the world.\u00a0Below are free\u00a0citizen science projects specifically helpful for ELLs. Find more by searching <a href=\"https:\/\/scistarter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SciStarter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zooniverse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zooniverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To learn more about integrating technology to support English language learners, attend our <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/tesol-lectures.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TESOL webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Projects<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scistarter.com\/project\/1506-The-covering-sense-of-OVER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OVER<\/a> &#8211; Help specify the semantics of the preposition over by answering survey questions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gameswithwords.org\/quizzes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gameswithwords.org\/quizzes<\/a> &#8211; Take 3 (Vocabulary, listening, and which English) quizzes to help contribute to research.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/smallworldofwords.org\/en\/project\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Small World of Words<\/a> &#8211; Contribute to this large-scale scientific study that aims to build a mental dictionary or lexicon in the major languages of the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lingscape.uni.lu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lingscape<\/a> (iOS\/Android App) &#8211; Lingscape is an app for researching linguistic landscapes all over the world by collecting photos of signs and lettering on an interactive map.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gameswithwords.org\/VerbCorner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Verb Corner<\/a> &#8211; Play a game to help scientists answer &#8211; Why are the rules of grammar the way they are? What do words and sentences mean?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungrymindlab.com\/moo-q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hungry Mindlab moo-Q iOS App<\/a> &#8211; Allows you to monitor your mood and brainpower by recording your positive and negative affects, memory ability, and processing speed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/projectdescribe.amnh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Project Describe<\/a> &#8211; Volunteers to help the American Museum of Natural History create descriptions for over 30,000 images on their website.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mark2cure.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mark2cure.org<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/asknature.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asknature.org<\/a> are projects in which students are asked to read small passages and answer questions related to the reading passages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our \u00a0students can use the Internet to learn English in exciting ways with people around the world. Recently we conducted a webinar about Citizen Science Projects for ELLs.\u00a0\u00a0Citizen science is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1943],"tags":[2187,2188,233,2014,2017,1968,813],"class_list":["post-13495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teach-english-with-technology","tag-citizen-science-esl","tag-citizen-science-projects-ells","tag-clil","tag-digital-research","tag-eap","tag-edtech","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13495"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19199,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions\/19199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}