A Multi-Sensory Tour of the Universe

该项目旨在鼓励视障儿童和高度贫困地区的儿童从事科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)职业。我们还旨在提高教师和科学传播者的信心，让视障人士能够接触到天文活动。更广泛地说，我们的目标是提高公众的认识，即STEM职业生涯对于视力障碍者来说是一个可行的选择，并提高了非视觉交流方法(即声音和触觉模型)的好处。我们将使用多方面的方法。在重大意义上，我们将与专业教师、视障儿童和来自高度贫困集水区学校的其他儿童组成的小组密切合作。与这些团体一起，我们将开发新的视听资源，这些资源将成为可供公众使用的教育讲习班和专业制作的天文馆表演的一部分。对于长期遗产，我们将把这些新资源纳入学校推广方案，并为英格兰东北部的教师和科学传播者提供定制培训，他们将提供这些资源。为了扩大影响，我们将免费向公众提供资源，并致力于在英国和其他地方的天文馆展示天文馆展览。总体而言，我们的目标是改善对边缘群体的社会和教育包容，并努力缩小视力正常的人和视障人士之间的就业差距。

This project is to inspire visually impaired children, and children from areas of high levels of deprivation, to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. We also aim to improve the confidence of teachers and science communicators to deliver astronomy activities that are accessible to the visually impaired. In broader terms we aim to raise awareness with the general public that STEM careers are a viable option for people with a visually impairment and of the benefits of non-visual communication methods (i.e., sound and tactile models). We will use a multi-faceted approach. For large significance we will work closely with small focus groups of specialist teachers, visually impaired children and other children from schools with highly deprived catchment areas. With these groups we will develop new audio-visual resources that will become part of publicly available accessible educational workshops and a professionally produced planetarium show. For long-term legacy we will incorporate these new resources into school outreach programmes and provide bespoke training to the teachers and science communicators in the North East of England who will deliver these resources. For wide reach we will make the resources publicly available, at no cost, and aim to have the planetarium show presented in planetariums across the UK and beyond. Overall, we aim to improve social and educational inclusion of marginalised groups and work towards lowering the gap in employment between fully sighted and visually impaired people.