ED021
Low-Tech and High-Impact Hands-on Activities: Minimizing Barriers to Facilitating STEM Content to Diverse Audiences
Session ID#: 159129
Session Description:
Whether you’re trying to stay within a budget, searching for ways to reach younger (or older!) audiences, or expanding accessibility to diverse learners, low tech solutions are often an effective path. This session will highlight work from the field utilizing low-tech hands-on activities to reach diverse audiences with high-impact STEM learning. Presenters in this session will include practitioners, evaluators, researchers, and organizations who are innovating methods to highlight earth and space science for audiences from pre-k to grey. Activities, resources, methods to define outcomes, currently targeted audiences, and evaluation and research results will be discussed during this session.
Index Terms:
0815 Informal education [EDUCATION]
0845 Instructional tools [EDUCATION]
0850 Geoscience education research [EDUCATION]
0855 Diversity [EDUCATION]
Primary Convener: Anne Holland, Space Science Institute Boulder, National Center for Interactive Learning, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Joelle Clark, Northern Arizona University, Center for Science Teaching and Learning, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Vivian White, ASP, San Francisco, CA, United States
"Launch and Learn" - using Instrumented Kites for Environmental Observations (1069672)
Geoff Bland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Andy Henry, Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, Wayne, MI, United States and The AEROKATS and ROVER Education Network (AREN) Team
Low Tech Strategies for a High Tech Mission: Public Libraries and NASA’s Artemis Program (1108322)
James B Harold, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Anne Holland, Space Science Institute Boulder, National Center for Interactive Learning, Boulder, CO, United States and Karly M Pitman, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
Low-Tech Approaches to Engaging Youth in Planetary Science and Engineering Activities (1128640)
Joelle Clark1, Sean Ryan1 and Carol Haden2, (1)Northern Arizona University, Center for Science Teaching and Learning, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Magnolia Consulting, Charlottesville, VA, United States
A New Science Mascot for the SSEC Portable Atmospheric Research Center (1161595)
Alexa Ross, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI, United States, P Jonathan Gero, University of Wisconsin Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States and Margaret E Mooney, CIMSS/SSEC/UW-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
VizAccess: Designing Scientific Visualizations That Are Accessible to People Who Are Blind/Vision Impaired (1186897)
Becca Hatheway1, Nihanth Wagmi Cherukuru2, Tiffany Fourment1, Matt Rehme3, David A Bailey4 and Marika M Holland5, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, United States, (5)Natl Ctr Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
