Citizen science is an excellent tool to bring big data to the formal education classroom. This article for AstroBeat, a bi-monthly publication from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, highlights two specific use cases where citizen science is implemented in different undergraduate classroom contexts.

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The article is written by Dr. Molly Simon, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and former Zooniverse Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

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