SciStarter Blog Archives

Five A+ Back-to-School Citizen Science Projects

Fall means back to school—check out these five citizen science projects on a variety of topics to bring the classroom to your living room!

Participate in the Great North American FungiQuest September 15 to October 15 by taking photos of local fungi on your phone!

Check out these five citizen science projects to celebrate National Dog Day on August 26!

Gamification and citizen science meet when research projects create video games to make data collection and analysis fun.

Check out our editor’s list of fun and easy projects to do this summer. Project results benefiting humans, ants, and more.

These five citizen science projects invite you to discover birds in your area. Help scientists collect data and protect bird habitats.

During the pandemic, acclaimed wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn got to know the local pollinators in his garden. Find out what happened.

How can it snow when temperatures are above freezing? Mountain Rain or Snow has the answer — and wants your help studying it.

What is SuperbOwl Sunday? A great time to get involved in citizen science with this roundup of great data collection projects!

Anyone can do citizen science, or public engagement in scientific research! Find out how four citizen scientists got started.