The Climate Change Educational Partnership Climate Change, Engineered Systems, and Society: A Report of Three Workshops (2014) / Chapter Skim
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6 INFORMAL EDUCATION ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY
6 INFORMAL EDUCATION ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY
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They offer forums, lectures, and panels, bringing in experts to meet and talk with visitors; interactive exhibits with three-dimensional objects; demonstrations of science phenomena; and interpretations based on thoughtful discussion and deliberation. Some Figure 6-1 28 In this chapter the terms science center and museum are used interchangeably.
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Informal Nano Education Rae Ostman, director of national collaborations at Sciencenter in Ithaca, New York, agreed that science centers are very effective at developing students' interest in science and getting them to identify with the scientific enterprise, and she referenced the National Research Council's report on Learning Science in Informal Environments (2009) .30 The focus of her presentation was the Sciencenter's Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Network; www.nisenet.org)
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; and a short video aimed at young adults that is a parody of 1950s education films. To encourage dissemination of the materials the team created an online catalogue for informal science education professionals and a public website that details their products and events.31 Communicating Climate Change Kate Crawford, project manager for the NSF-funded Communicating Climate Change (C3)
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. Criteria for Model Programs and Products David Sittenfeld, manager of the Forum Program at the Museum of Science in Boston, proposed a model of a partnership in informal science education for the CCEP project based on the C3 and NISE Network programs.
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Issues were drawn from three case studies -- on increases in sea level, extreme precipitation events, and extreme temperatures -- in the 2011 publication of the Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report.36 The activity engaged museum guests in considering climate change in public policy decisions about infrastructure and making decisions under conditions of uncertainty about future environmental changes. The first case asked people to decide how they would have planned for the siting of the Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plan on an island at sea level, based on current knowledge of the impacts of climate change.
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as an ideal model for a similar large-scale education program on climate change and infrastructure, and then presented his understanding of the goals for the CCEP effort on climate change and infrastructure: Raise awareness among citizens, policymakers, and decision makers of the implications of a changing climate; Increase the willingness and capacity of citizens, decision makers, and policymakers to support climate change resiliency; and Pursue climate change resiliency strategies that have other societal benefits. Science museums can support these three goals by framing, convening, and catalyzing conversations.
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Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences Jeanne Braha Troy, program officer at the Koshland Science Museum, explained that the museum's target audience is science-interested adults and its mission is to help people use science to solve problems, drawing from intellectual materials produced by National Academies expert committees. The museum transforms the intellectual knowledge into engaging experiences through exhibits or programs that help visitors develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills as well as a sense of self-efficacy in their decision making on science and engineering topics.
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Roberts concluded by showing a video by artist and interventionist Eve Mosher on her project called the HighWaterLine, a project to help New Yorkers visualize the impact of climate change on their city.38 In 2007 -- five Figure 6-3 years before superstorm Sandy -- she chalked 70 miles of Manhattan and Brooklyn that would be vulnerable to mega floods if climate change continued (Figure 6.4)
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to revision flood zone infrastructure around the New York City Harbor. Rising Currents39 was primarily a landscape architectural design project, with a focus on increasing soft infrastructure or living coastline features such as dunes, salt marshes, and oyster beds.
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The interventions were designed to engage people in complex ethical, policy, and engineering decisions while making them approachable topics to the general public. The interventions highlight the issues the public faces regarding climate change and engineered systems, while also discussing and encouraging consideration of the cross-cutting themes.
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