Space Weather Outreach

空间天气外展

• 批准号: 0755125
• 负责人: Paul Dusenbery
• 金额: $ 72万
• 依托单位: SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0755125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Space; Weather; Outreach

This project will develop a comprehensive Space Weather Outreach program to reach students, educators, and other members of the public, and share with them the discoveries from this scientific discipline. The Space Science Institute will capitalize on its prior successes and the success of other education programs to develop a comprehensive and integrated program that has the following five components: (1) the Space Weather Center website that includes online educational games; (2) Small Exhibits for Libraries, Shopping Malls, and Science Centers; (3) After-School Programs; (4) Professional Development Workshops for Educators, and (5) an innovative Evaluation and Education Research project. Its overarching goal is to inspire, engage, and educate a broad spectrum of the public and make strategic and innovative connections between informal and K-12 education communities. Partners include UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory; the American Library Association; Macerich: a mall developer with nationwide impact; and the Math, Engineering, Science Achievement program. The project brings together a creative collaboration between exhibit designers, graphic artists, formal/informal educators, and research scientists. The project spans a full spectrum of science communication strategies (formal, informal, and public outreach). The evaluation part of the project will examine how well the project elements work together and a pilot research study will explore the efficacy of online digital games for communicating complex space weather content. Results will be published and the findings presented at professional meetings and online. The three-year project is expected to impact well over two million people, including exhibit and website visitors and outreach visitors at various venues such as libraries and malls.

该项目将制定一个全面的空间天气外展计划，以接触学生、教育工作者和其他公众成员，并与他们分享这一科学学科的发现。空间科学研究所将利用其先前的成功和其他教育计划的成功来开发一个全面和综合的计划，该计划有以下五个组成部分：(1)空间天气中心网站，其中包括在线教育游戏；(2)图书馆、商场、科学中心小型展览；(3)课后活动；(4)教育工作者专业发展研讨会；(5)创新的评估和教育研究项目。其首要目标是激励、吸引和教育广泛的公众，并在非正式教育和K-12教育社区之间建立战略和创新的联系。合作伙伴包括加州大学伯克利分校的空间科学实验室；美国图书馆协会；Macerich：具有全国影响力的商场开发商；以及数学、工程、科学成就项目。该项目汇集了展览设计师、平面艺术家、正式/非正式教育工作者和研究科学家之间的创造性合作。该项目涵盖了各种科学传播策略（正式、非正式和公众推广）。该项目的评估部分将检查项目要素如何协同工作，试点研究将探索在线数字游戏在传播复杂空间天气内容方面的功效。研究结果将在专业会议和网上公布。这个为期三年的项目预计将影响超过200万人，包括展览和网站访问者以及图书馆和购物中心等各种场所的外展访问者。