Space Weather Outreach

空间天气外展

• 批准号: 0755125
• 负责人: Paul Dusenbery
• 金额: $ 72万
• 依托单位: SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0755125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Space; Weather; Outreach

This project will develop a comprehensive Space Weather Outreach program to reach students, educators, and other members of the public, and share with them the discoveries from this scientific discipline. The Space Science Institute will capitalize on its prior successes and the success of other education programs to develop a comprehensive and integrated program that has the following five components: (1) the Space Weather Center website that includes online educational games; (2) Small Exhibits for Libraries, Shopping Malls, and Science Centers; (3) After-School Programs; (4) Professional Development Workshops for Educators, and (5) an innovative Evaluation and Education Research project. Its overarching goal is to inspire, engage, and educate a broad spectrum of the public and make strategic and innovative connections between informal and K-12 education communities. Partners include UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory; the American Library Association; Macerich: a mall developer with nationwide impact; and the Math, Engineering, Science Achievement program. The project brings together a creative collaboration between exhibit designers, graphic artists, formal/informal educators, and research scientists. The project spans a full spectrum of science communication strategies (formal, informal, and public outreach). The evaluation part of the project will examine how well the project elements work together and a pilot research study will explore the efficacy of online digital games for communicating complex space weather content. Results will be published and the findings presented at professional meetings and online. The three-year project is expected to impact well over two million people, including exhibit and website visitors and outreach visitors at various venues such as libraries and malls.

该项目将制定一项全面的太空天气外展计划，以吸引学生，教育工作者和其他公众，并与他们分享这一科学学科的发现。太空科学学院将利用其先前的成功以及其他教育计划的成功，以制定一个全面而综合的计划，该计划具有以下五个组成部分：（1）包括在线教育游戏在内的太空气象中心网站； （2）图书馆，购物中心和科学中心的小展览； （3）课后课程； （4）教育工作者的专业发展研讨会，以及（5）创新的评估和教育研究项目。它的总体目标是激发，参与和教育广泛的公众，并在非正式和K-12教育社区之间建立战略和创新的联系。合作伙伴包括加州大学伯克利分校的太空科学实验室；美国图书馆协会； MACERICH：全国影响的购物中心开发商； 以及数学，工程，科学成就计划。该项目汇集了展览设计师，图形艺术家，正式/非正式教育工作者和研究科学家之间的创造性合作。 该项目涵盖了各种科学传播策略（正式，非正式和公共外展）。 该项目的评估部分将研究项目元素在一起工作的效果，而试点研究将探讨在线数字游戏在传达复杂空间天气内容方面的功效。 结果将发布，并在专业会议和在线上提出的发现。这项为期三年的项目预计将影响超过200万人，包括展览和网站访问者以及图书馆和购物中心等各个场所的访问者。