Heather Zimmerman

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Pennsylvania State University

United States

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Heather Zimmerman is a Professor of Education at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Her research focuses on innovative learning practices in informal educational settings, particularly in the domains of place-based learning, collaborative family science, and the integration of technology in educational experiences. Recent publications include studies on children’s engagement in science museums, mobile augmented reality for geoscience learning, and fostering genetics education through design-based research.

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The Intertwining of Children’s Interests and Micro-Practices at a Science Museum: Case Study of Three Children

Mobile augmented reality supporting families’ immersive collaborative learning: Learning-on-the-move for place-based geoscience sense-making

Shifts of epistemic agency between children and parents during making at museum-based makerspace

Place as creative partner: placemaking with a university arboretum

Place‐based learning processes in a family science workshop: Discussion prompts supporting families sensemaking and rural science connections using a community water model

Using youths’ personal DNA data in science camps: Fostering genetics learning and socio‐emotional attitudes toward science with design‐based research

Supporting children’s place-based observations and explanations using collaboration scripts while learning-on-the-move outdoors

Supporting Observing-on-the-Move with Proximity-Based Technology: Designing for Children’s Scientific Observations Outdoors

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Lucy McClain

Gi Woong Choi

Nina Jablonski

Jennifer Weible

Jaclyn Dudek

Yong Ju Jung

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