Space Weather Outreach Program

美国国家科学基金会(NSF)和美国国家航空航天局(NASA)都确认有必要教育公众了解太阳活动对地球近空间环境的影响，包括可能对宇航员造成的伤害、卫星通信中断以及对电网的不利影响。这一项目将扩大空间科学研究所以前的活动，扩大和发展下列项目组成部分：(1)空间气象中心网站；(2)科学中心和购物中心的微型展览；(3)关于古代天文台/空间气象的广播节目；(4)太阳家庭指南；(5)专业发展讲习班。空间气象推广项目的拟议组成部分跨越了科学传播的主要领域：正规教育、非正规教育和公共宣传。拟议的项目是集成的，因此每个组件都利用了其他组件的各个方面。例如，微型展览将利用网站的互动活动以及从广播节目中选择的内容。广播节目可与《家庭指南》和《教育家指南》一起在网站上存档。这些指南将与网站一起用于教育工作者研讨会。这些相互联系有助于加强每个单独的组成部分和整个项目。该项目将通过将各种评价结果纳入该项目并收集数据，将公众对空间物理和天文学概念的理解与学生对空间物理和天文学概念的理解进行对比，从而对非正规教育评价领域作出贡献。此外，该研究所将在先前评估的基础上，对其《太阳家庭指南》进行进一步评估，以找出在家庭学习环境中效果最好的方法。这两项评价研究的结果将通过在相关期刊上发表，向其他教育和外联专业人员提供。它还将把从评估中学到的经验应用到为课外项目开发的活动和材料中，这将是SSI外展项目的一个新领域。空间气象研究所将通过以下渠道传播与空间天气有关的新的多媒体内容和活动：(1)空间气象中心网站；(2)为中学和高中教师举办的专业发展讲习班；(3)英语和西班牙语广播；(4)美国宇航局印刷材料的分发渠道；(5)课后和社区节目；以及(6)购物中心和科学中心，作为微型展览的场所。

Both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have identified the need to educate the public about the effects of solar activity on Earth's near-space environment, including possible harm to astronauts, disruption of satellite communications, and adverse effects on power grids. This project will expand on the previous activities of the Space Science Institute by expanding and developing the following project components: (1) the Space Weather Center Web Site; (2) Micro Exhibits for Science Centers and Shopping Malls; (3) Radio Programs on Ancient Observatories/Space Weather; (4) the Family Guide to the Sun; and (5) Professional Development Workshops. The proposed components of the Space Weather Outreach Project cross the major realms of science communications: formal education, informal education, and public outreach. The proposed project is integrated so that each of the components makes use of aspects of the other components. For example, the micro exhibit will take advantage of the web site's interactive activities as well as selections from the radio programming. Radio programs can be archived on the Web site along with the Family Guide and Educator Guide. The guides will be used in the educator workshops along with the Web site. These interconnections serve to strengthen each individual component and the project as a whole. This project will contribute to the field of informal education evaluation by incorporating various evaluation results into the project and gathering data contrasting public understanding with student understanding of space physics and astronomy concepts. In addition, the Institute will conduct further evaluations of its Family Guide to the Sun that builds on an earlier evaluation in order to find out what works best in family learning environments. The findings from both evaluation studies will be made available to other education and outreach professionals by publishing them in relevant journals. It will also apply the lessons from the evaluations to activities and materials that it develops for after-school programs, which will be a new area for SSI's outreach program. SSI will distribute new, multi-media space weather-related content and activities through the following channels: (1) the Space Weather Center Web site; (2) professional development workshops for middle and high school teachers; (3) English and Spanish language radio broadcasts across the country; (4) NASA's distribution outlet for printed materials; (5) after-school and community-based programs; and (6) shopping malls and science centers as venues for micro exhibits.