STEM Escape: Immersing urban and rural families in a biomedical mystery

STEM 逃亡：让城乡家庭沉浸在生物医学之谜中

• 批准号: 10663933
• 负责人: Lisa Diane White
• 金额: $ 25.96万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10663933
• 关键词: Academy; Adoption; Age; Awareness; Biological; Biology; Biomedical Research; Books; California; Career Choice; Caregivers; Collaborations; Communication; Community Health Education; Country; Critical Thinking; Development; Disease Progression; Education; Educational process of instructing; Electronic Mail; Emerging Communicable Diseases; Evaluation; Evolution; Exhibits; Extended Family; Family; Family member; Funding; Goals; Grant; Home; Institution; Investigation; Kansas; Knowledge; Language; Learning; Libraries; Life; Medical; Medical Research; Medicine; Modeling; Morphologic artifacts; Museums; Natural History; Paleontology; Pattern; Play; Process; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Rural; STEM game; Science; Series; Site; Source; Teenagers; Time; Travel; Underserved Population; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Wheelchairs; Work; Youth; bilingualism; career; career awareness; design; experience; follow-up; improved; informal learning; innovation; interest; iterative design; learning outcome; novel; rural families; science education; skills; suburb; virtual reality game

Escape rooms are an engaging and increasingly popular game format in which a team of players is “locked” in a room and challenged to solve a series of narrative-embedded puzzles encoded in the room's artifacts in order to “escape” within a set period of time. The University of California Museum of Paleontology, with partners University of Kansas Natural History Museum and the California Academy of Sciences, aim to develop, evaluate, and disseminate a “serious game” (i.e., a game designed for a purpose other than entertainment) based on the escape room model. Our traveling/loanable pop-up escape room and associated extension activities will engage diverse families (ages 8 and up) in museums and libraries in solving a biomedical mystery that teaches fundamental concepts in biology, engages critical-thinking and collaboration skills, and stimulates interest in biomedical careers. STEM Escape will address NGSS-aligned content central to medical research – in particular, it will communicate basic concepts regarding evolutionary relationships, a topic with relevance to a wide variety of medical applications, such as determining the source of emerging infectious diseases, tracking the progression of disease within a host, and identifying new medicines. The project is designed to lay the groundwork for extended family interactions surrounding scientific content and biomedical careers. The immersive game will be supplemented by a set of solo and docent-led follow-up activities that reinforce key concepts and emphasize connections between players' experience in the game and biomedical research careers. Learners will also receive takeaway media (e.g., activity book) that highlights a diverse set of NIH-funded researchers whose work directly relies on evolutionary patterns/processes. Caregivers will have the option of receiving a follow-up email with free at-home activities. The themed inflatable pop-up room will be wheelchair-accessible and all materials will be bilingual in English and Spanish. The STEM Escape experience will be developed with and for the diverse audiences visiting urban/suburban natural history museums and libraries, as well as with and for rural families, whom we will reach through rural libraries. The project will also produce and evaluate a suite of support materials to facilitate institutional adoption and deployment of the experience. Nine host sites across the country have committed to hosting the room (with an additional two sites in the planning stages), and after the life of the grant, the room will continue to make an impact as a rentable traveling exhibit. Long term, this project will improve the public's understanding of medically relevant evolutionary content, increase interest in biomedical careers, particularly among underserved groups targeted, and improve our understanding of how immersive games can be used to serve educational objectives.

密室逃脱是一种越来越受欢迎的游戏形式， 玩家被“锁”在一个房间里，挑战解决一系列嵌入叙事的谜题。 在房间里的文物，以便在一段时间内“逃脱”。美国加州大学 古生物学博物馆，与合作伙伴堪萨斯大学自然历史博物馆和加州 科学院，旨在开发，评估和传播一个“严肃的游戏”（即，游戏 设计用于娱乐以外的目的）。我们 旅行/可贷款弹出逃生室和相关的扩展活动将吸引不同的家庭 (ages 8岁及以上）在博物馆和图书馆解决生物医学之谜，教基本 生物学概念，从事批判性思维和协作技能，并激发兴趣， 生物医学职业STEM Escape将解决NGSS对齐的内容对医学研究的核心-在 特别是，它将传达有关进化关系的基本概念，这是一个主题， 与各种各样的医疗应用相关，例如确定新兴的 感染性疾病，跟踪宿主体内疾病的进展，并确定新药。 该项目旨在为大家庭的互动奠定基础， 科学内容和生物医学事业。沉浸式游戏将辅以一套独奏 以及由讲解员主导的后续活动，这些活动强化了关键概念，并强调了 玩家在游戏中的经验和生物医学研究生涯。学习者还将收到外卖 媒体（例如，活动书），突出了NIH资助的研究人员的工作直接 依赖于进化模式/过程。护理人员将可以选择接收后续电子邮件 免费的家庭活动。主题充气弹出室将是轮椅无障碍和所有 材料将以英语和西班牙语双语提供。 STEM Escape体验将与参观的不同观众一起开发 城市/郊区自然历史博物馆和图书馆，以及与农村家庭，我们 将通过乡村图书馆传播。该项目还将制作和评估一套支持材料 以促进机构采用和部署经验。全国9个托管站点 已承诺主办会议室（另有两个地点在规划阶段）， 在赠款的生命中，这个房间将继续作为一个可出租的巡回展览产生影响。长期来看，这 该项目将提高公众对医学相关进化内容的理解， 对生物医学职业感兴趣，特别是在服务不足的目标群体中，并提高我们的 了解如何使用沉浸式游戏来服务于教育目标。