communityscience
nounCommunity science is when regular people help scientists learn about the world by watching, counting, or writing down things they see.
Our class did community science by counting birds in the park and sending the numbers to scientists.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. Science done by a group of people who live in the same area to solve a local problem.
The neighborhood used community science to test the water in the creek behind the school.
3. A way of learning where everyone in a community shares what they notice and helps each other understand it.
Community science helped the town figure out why so many trees were losing their leaves.
4. Projects where ordinary people work together with experts to gather information about plants, animals, or the environment.
She joined a community science project to track when the first flowers bloom each spring.