Planning Activity: Using contemporary evolution to teach about the nature of science to underserved audiences

华盛顿州立大学、普吉特湾大学、华盛顿大学、一个由三家博物馆组成的联盟，以及一个帮助西北部家庭学校教师的全州特许学校系统正在合作开发新的战略，通过互动的博物馆展品来教育和告知公众进化。将通过重点小组讨论和调查获得背景信息和基线知识。将向家庭学校环境中的家长和学生以及以信仰为基础的团体的教师寻求信息。策划工作是实际展览发展的前奏，并需要告知公众如何最有效地帮助公众最有效地学习进化的关键概念。提供基线信息和概念知识的小组将被用来以迭代的方式判断博物馆的发展。这项努力的第二个目标是促进地区博物馆之间的合作。参与该项目的工作人员将来自西雅图的伯克自然历史和文化博物馆、华盛顿州普尔曼的康纳博物馆、华盛顿州塔科马的斯莱特自然历史博物馆、内布拉斯加州州立博物馆和爱达荷州远程教育学院。这个项目将从独特的家庭-学校和以信仰为基础的社区获得关于进化的基线观点，描述当代进化故事的试点互动展品，关于这些参与群体是否在展品开发中提供有用策略的比较知识，以及当代内容展品是否比更传统的例子更善于解释进化论。

Washington State University, the University of Puget Sound, the University of Washington, a consortium of three museums, and a state-wide charter school system that assists home-school teachers in the Northwest are collaborating to develop new strategies to educate and inform the public about evolution through interactive museum exhibits. Background information and baseline knowledge will be garnered through focus group discussions and surveys. Information will be sought from parents and students in home-school environments and teachers of faith-based groups. The planning work is the prelude to development of the actual exhibition and is needed to inform the PIs how most effectively to help the public best learn key concepts of evolution. The same groups that supply the baseline information and knowledge of concepts will be used to judge museum development in an iterative manner.A second objective in this endeavor is to catalyze collaboration among regional museums. Participants in the project will be staff from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle, Conner Museum in Pullman, Washington, Slater Museum of Natural History in Tacoma, Washington, Nebraska State Museum, and Idaho Distance Education Academy. An advisory committee includes evolutionary scientists, philosophers of science, and members of the clergy.This project will derive baseline perspectives on evolution from the unique home-school and faith-based communities, piloted interactive exhibits describing contemporary evolution stories, comparative knowledge on whether these participating groups provide useful strategies in the exhibit development, and whether contemporary content exhibits are better at explanations of evolution than the more traditional examples.