Citizen Scientists
I was recently reading the July/August, 2020 issue of \u201cScience and Children\u201d a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.\xa0\xa0In this issue, I read the \u201cMethods and Strategies \u201c column written by Meredith Hayes, P. Sean Smith, and W. Robert Midden.\xa0 Their article was entitled \u201cStudents as Citizen Scientists.\u201d
Citizen Science involves individuals who are not professional scientists in authentic scietific endeavors, typically in collaboration with or supervised by professional scientists or scientific institutions. \xa0Increasingly, Citizen Science is making its way into schools and into science classes in particular.