FUSION SCIENCE THEATER: AN INNOVATIVE MODEL TO SOW AND GROW THE SEEDS OF STEM THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED SCIENCE THEATER

麦迪逊地区技术学院将完善和评估融合科学剧场（FST）的有效性，该剧场是戏剧、科学演示和参与性组成部分的结合，作为ISE教学模式，通过开发和试验可输出版本（科学盒）来测试其可转移性，并在全国范围内招募合适的合作伙伴，为更大规模的实施和评估做准备。融合科学剧场活动利用科学、戏剧和教育领域应用专业知识的协作努力。这些事件支持有趣的互动，因为角色参与观众的情感。Act-It Out系列邀请儿童和家长参与科学概念的建模，从而创造一个学习是社会互动和动觉、情感和人际学习的产物的环境。为了证明这是一个可转移的模式，来自威斯康星大学麦迪逊生物技术中心的一个独立的跨学科团队将制作他们自己的FST活动，并将其与现有的FST项目进行评估和比较。麦迪逊儿童博物馆‘’‘’将作为活动的合作场所，并在策划过程中提供专业知识。这一规划的最终项目将包括讲习班，培训来自全国各地的合作团队，了解FST的原则和实践，促进专业人员之间的跨学科合作，并为FST活动制定评估设计。经过培训的团队将举办面向儿童、家长和公众的FST活动。规划拨款项目设计包括进一步测试、验证和记录融合科学剧院事件所需的活动。它提供了模型有效性和可移植性概念的证明。它还发起、发展和评估培训其他团体实施该模式的方法，并向全国专业网络宣传该模式，以传播工作和招募现场团队。

Madison Area Technical College will refine and evaluate the effectiveness of Fusion Science Theater (FST), a combination of theater, science demonstrations, and participatory components, as an ISE teaching model, to test its transferability through development and trials of an exportable version (Science-in-a-Box), and to recruit appropriate partners nationally in preparation for a larger scale implementation and evaluation.A Fusion Science Theater event utilizes the collaborative effort of applied expertise in science, theater and education. These events support playful interactions as characters engage the emotions of the audience. The Act-It Out sequences invite children and parents to become involved in modeling scientific concepts, thus creating an environment where learning is the product of social interaction and kinesthetic, affective and interpersonal learning. To provide proof-of-concept that this a transferable model, an independent, interdisciplinary team from the University of Wisconsin, Madison Biotechnology Center will produce their own FST event that will be evaluated and compared to an existing FST program. The Madison Children''''s Museum will partner as a venue for the event and provide expertise in the planning process. The ultimate project resulting from this planning would include workshops to train collaborative teams from around the country in the principles and practices of FST, promotion of cross-disciplinary collaboration among professionals, and honing of an evaluation design for FST events. The trained teams would then produce FST events that reach children, their parents and the general public. The planning grant project design includes activities necessary to further test, verify and document Fusion Science Theater events. It provides a proof of concept of model effectiveness and transferability. It also initiates, develops and assesses ways to train other groups to implement the model and publicizes the model to national professional networks to spread the work and recruit site teams.