GSE/DIS: SciGirls Museum Adventures from DragonflyTV

SciGirls是一个全国性的传播项目，它将PBS科学系列节目DragonflyTV的资源交给PBS电视台的外展专业人员和女孩课后项目的教育工作者。目前的项目利用PBS的全国成员站网络，将教育研究界与该领域的从业人员联系起来。到目前为止，SciGirls已经培训了100多名教育工作者和社区领袖，并接触了2,300名3至8年级的女孩。SCIGIRLS博物馆探险有四个目标：1）为博物馆教育工作者提供DragonflyTV视频，模拟博物馆环境中的真实探究; 2）通过专门针对博物馆教育工作者的新的博物馆活动和研究策略，扩展SciGirls活动指南; 3）制作一套在线流媒体视频，展示性别包容性教学的最佳做法; 4）促进参与者与研究团体之间的反馈，加深我们对让女孩参与STEM活动的最有效方法的理解。智力优势-SciGirls的优势在于其全面的多媒体方法和探究基础-根据国家科学教育标准定义的战略。SciGirls提供的视频强调科学的过程，而不是科学事实的集合。他们提供了所有女孩都能做的真实世界的调查模型。总之，SciGirls资源激发讨论，建立信心，并为女孩自己调查科学问题铺平道路。SciGirls提供的教育策略是基于对性别包容的STEM教学和学习的研究，转化为课后教育工作者可以轻松使用的策略，为女孩创造成功的STEM体验。更广泛的影响--SCIGIRLS博物馆冒险将为十个地点的博物馆教育工作者提供可在未来几年用于其项目的材料。整套资源--流媒体视频和活动指南--将在DragonflyTV的网站www.pbs.org上提供。该项目的成果将与非正式的科学教育研究界分享。 调查结果将在年度PBS国家外展中心会议上报告。

SciGirls is a national dissemination project, which puts resources from the PBS science series DragonflyTV into the hands of outreach professionals at PBS stations and educators in after school programs for girls. The current project leverages PBS' nationwide network of member stations to connect the educational research community with practitioners in the field. Thus far SciGirls has trained over 100 educators and community leaders and reached 2,300 girls in grades 3 through 8.SCIGIRLS MUSEUM ADVENTURES has four objectives: 1) to provide museum educators with DragonflyTV videos that model authentic inquiry in museum settings; 2) to expand SciGirls activity guides with new museum-based activities and research-based strategies specifically for museum educators; 3) to create a set of online, streaming videos that demonstrate best practices in gender-inclusive teaching; and 4) to facilitate feedback between our participants and the research community and deepen our understanding of the most effective ways to engage girls in STEM activities.Intellectual Merit--The strength of SciGirls lies in its comprehensive multimedia approach and its foundation in the inquiry-based strategies defined in the National Science Education Standards. The videos provided in SciGirls emphasize the process of science, rather than a collection of science facts. They provide real-world models of inquiry that all girls can do. Taken together, the SciGirls resources stimulate discussion, build confidence and pave the way for girls to investigate science questions on their own. The educational strategies provided by SciGirls are based in research into gender- inclusive STEM teaching and learning, translated into strategies that can be easily used by after school educators to create successful STEM experiences for girls.Broader Impact--SCIGIRLS MUSEUM ADVENTURES will provide museum educators at ten sites with materials that can be used in their programs for years to come. The entire set of resources--streaming videos and Activity Guides--will be available on DragonflyTV's Web site at www.pbs.org. The outcomes of the project will be shared with the informal science education research community. Findings will be reported at the annual PBS National Center for Outreach Conference.