Resources and Updates

This resource describes how learning occurs. This information will help you think in ways that will optimize the comprehension from the participants of your project.

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Science, and School

This article summarizes some key takeaways from how people learn. These findings should be used as techniques to ensure your participants truly learn and understand your material

• Key Findings from How People Learn

Below you will find best practices and other recommendations to ensure your public engagement activity or learning environment is the best that it can be. Learn about how to maximize your impact on your target audience.

• Exploration Project Framework

This strategy document will provide best practices for moving your project into a virtual space.

• Hybrid exploration project

This document contains questions to ask yourself when designing your virtual or hybrid project.

• Questions to consider for hybrid learning

This resource provides you with best practices for ensuring your content is accessible in a virtual space.

• Tips for making online content accessible

This document contains a checklist of items to do when you are creating a pre-recorded video.

• Checklist for recording (preparation)

This resource contains a checklist of to-do items when you are doing a live call (something like Zoom).

• Checklist for recording (live)

Here you will find a slide deck containing past NSF Career Award winners including their name, face, background, and focus within the Broader Impact Identity.

• Names and Faces

You will also find a pdf of the partners and programs that are willing to help you find your BI identity. Here there are links to pages 1-3 of the 4 page document.

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3

Here is the 4th and final page of the partners and programs connected to Broader Impacts.

• Page 4

When a scientist shares a story of how they got interested in science or why they are studying that particular research through a first-person narrative, non-scientists are more likely to view them as authentic.

• Constructing and Influencing Perceived Authenticity in Science Communication

Demonstrating that scientists are human through stories of life both inside and outside the lab is important for building trust and establishing personal connections with the audience.

• Communicating science can benefit from scientist 'being human'

Below you will find these requirements and other resources that will guide your preparation and help you efficiently keep track of your plans and updates.

• Broader Impacts Timeline

This is an Excel sheet that you can download to keep track of your journey of becoming a Wisconsin Idea STEM Fellow. This will help you plan better and stay on top of things. *You may need to be logged into your wisc email to access this properly.

• Planning Hub