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)作为ISE教学模式的有效性，融合剧场、科学演示和参与性组件，通过开发和试验可输出版本(Science-in-a-Box)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、戏剧和教育方面的应用专业知识的合作努力。这些活动支持有趣的互动，因为角色参与了观众的情感。Act-It Out序列邀请儿童和家长参与建立科学概念的模型，从而创造一种环境，在这种环境中，学习是社会互动和动觉、情感和人际学习的产物。为了证明这是一种可移植的模式，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计划进行评估和比较。麦迪逊儿童S博物馆将合作作为活动的场地，并在规划过程中提供专业知识。这一规划产生的最终项目将包括举办讲习班，培训来自全国各地的协作团队，使他们了解科学技术的原则和做法，促进专业人员之间的跨学科合作，以及改进科学技术活动的评价设计。然后，训练有素的团队将制作FST活动，接触到儿童、他们的父母和普通公众。规划赠款项目设计包括进一步测试、验证和记录Fusion Science Theater事件所需的活动。它提供了模型有效性和可转移性概念的证明。它还发起、开发和评估培训其他小组实施该模式的方法，并向国家专业网络宣传该模式，以传播工作并招募现场团队。

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.