Lineage: A Cross-Platform Learning Experience Exploring the History of Life on Earth

Lineage是一个综合性的教育媒体和推广计划，将使个人和家庭了解深刻的时间和进化，帮助观众对地球上生命的过去、现在和未来之间的联系达成新的理解。该项目是双城PBS(TPT)和史密森学会国家自然历史博物馆的合作伙伴关系，并与该博物馆新的深度时间化石馆于2019年6月开放有关。该项目包括一部两个小时的电影，在PBS上全国播出，以及一个20分钟的简短版本，在科学中心展出。纪录片将展示科学家如何利用古生物学、遗传学、地球科学和其他学科，详细重建鸟类和大象等现存动物的起源，揭示它们的远古历史，以及生态变化的证据，这些证据可以帮助我们了解今天的地球。广泛的教育推广活动将包括创造一款创新的VR(虚拟现实)游戏《骨猎人》，这是一款为家庭共同游戏而设计的游戏，让多名玩家参与到古生物学的过程中，因为他们在数字实验室里拼凑出一块化石。骨骼猎人和其他合作教育活动将在家庭化石节上部署，将吸引多代学习者。其中一个这样的节日将在华盛顿特区的史密森学会举行，而其他节日将在服务于服务不足的农村和城市社区的不同地理位置的机构举行。Lineage是国家媒体制片人、著名学习机构和研究人员之间的合作，包括双城公共电视台、史密森学会/国家自然历史博物馆、谢尔游戏、学习创新研究所(ILI)和Rockman等人。该项目的主要创新之一是为使用尖端技术的家庭探索新的学习设计(例如，骨猎人虚拟现实游戏)，以及促进科学知识和探究式学习的多代协作学习体验。ILI进行的一项外部研究将调查与虚拟文物相比，与物理文物的代际合作如何影响STEM(科学、技术、工程、数学)的学习和参与。这些发现将对该领域产生关键的战略影响，建立关于自由选择学习空间中正在进行的创新的知识。该项目的外部评估将由Rockman等人进行，评估结果以及来自该项目的教材将通过与专业人士和教育工作者团体的伙伴关系广泛传播。传承电影的片段和相关的学习资源将被托管在PBS LearningMedia上，这样教育工作者就可以将这些资源整合到他们的课堂上，学生和终身学习者可以自己探索和发现。项目成果将对公众受众产生广泛影响，加深和增进对重要科学概念的知识和理解，并促进持续的、以家庭为基础的协作学习体验，以扩大和深化STEM知识。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习计划(AISL)资助，该计划旨在促进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。这包括提供多种途径，扩大STEM学习的渠道和参与度。

Lineage is a comprehensive educational media and outreach initiative that will engage individuals and families in learning about deep time and evolution, helping audiences come to newfound understandings of the connections between the past, present, and future of life on Earth. The project is a partnership between Twin Cities PBS (TPT) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History and is linked to the opening of that museum's new Deep Time Fossil Hall in June 2019. The project includes a two-hour film for national broadcast on PBS, and a 20-minute short version for exhibition in science centers. The documentaries will show how scientists, using paleontology, genetics, earth science and other disciplines, can reconstruct in detail the origins of living animals like birds and elephants, revealing their ancient past as well as evidence of ecological change that can inform our understanding of Earth today. Extensive educational outreach will include the creation of "Bone Hunter," an innovative VR (Virtual Reality) game designed for family co-play that engages multiple players in the process of paleontology as they piece together a fossil in a digital lab. Bone Hunter and other collaborative educational activities will be deployed at Family Fossil Festivals that will attract multi-generational learners. One such Festival will take place at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., while others will be based at geographically diverse institutions that serve underserved rural as well as urban communities. Lineage is a collaboration between national media producers, noted learning institutions and researchers, including Twin Cities Public Television, the Smithsonian Institution / National Museum of Natural History, Schell Games, the Institute for Learning Innovation (ILI), and Rockman et al. One of the project's primary innovations is its exploration of new learning designs for families that use cutting-edge technologies (e.g. the Bone Hunter virtual reality game) and collaborative multi-generational learning experiences that advance science knowledge and inquiry-based learning. An external research study conducted by ILI will investigate how intergenerational co-play with physical artifacts compared to virtual artifacts influences STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) learning and engagement. The findings will lead to critical strategic impacts for the field, building knowledge about ongoing innovation in the free choice learning space. The project's external evaluation will be conducted by Rockman et al and evaluative findings, as well as the educational materials derived from the project, will be widely disseminated through partnerships with professional and educator groups. Clips from the Lineage film and related learning resources will be hosted on PBS LearningMedia, so educators can incorporate these resources into their classrooms, and students and lifelong learners can explore and discover on their own. The project outcomes will have broad impact on public audiences, deepening and advancing knowledge and understanding about important scientific concepts, and promoting continued, family-based collaborative learning experiences to expand and deepen STEM knowledge. This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning.