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A Mercier, HB Carlone - Connected Science Learning, 2021 - nsta.org

Identi-beads and identi-badges as strategies to encourage STEM identity work.

Broadening participation informal stem education

Carlone, Mercier

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At the end of a long day of STEM activities in the five-week Saturday Academies, six middle-school youth gather around a bag of multicolored plastic beads. Each colored bead represents a mode of STEM engagement (eg, pink represents investigator, white represents inventor, black represents tinkerer). Youth listen to their friends share why they're selecting certain beads. Joaquin explains that he is selecting an inventor bead because of his logical thinking when solving a problem about best management practices in a design challenge …

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