[LTER-education] FW: looking for partners on an AISL proposal - the role of emotions in informal science

[O'Connell, Kari Elizabeth Bisbee]

Hi LTER peeps,

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

I wanted to forward this opportunity to you all to glance at before our meeting. Then if there are any questions, I can try to answer them.

My colleague, Nancy, who gave a presentation to our group about STEM learning ecosystems awhile back, is hoping to find partners who lead multi-day (or residential) programs that take place outside of the classroom (not afterschool programs). Ideally they would be informal in the sense that there would be no grades or school credit involved.  The proposal is focused on immersive learning experiences in the outdoors/nature, so I thought one or more of the LTER sites might be interested.

See below and attached for more information.

Kari

From: Staus, Nancy Lynn <Nancy.Staus at oregonstate.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 1:54 PM
To: O'Connell, Kari Elizabeth Bisbee <kari.oconnell at oregonstate.edu>
Subject: Blurb to Alan

Hi Kari,
As promised, here is a blurb that you could share with Alan or other ISL program providers in your network. Please feel free to edit it if you think anything is unclear or you have  better way of phrasing. I'm also attaching our one-pager if you want to include that for more context. Thanks so much for your help!

My colleague Erin Pettit and I (Nancy Staus) are seeking potential partners for an NSF AISL (Advancing Informal STEM Learning) Research in Service to Practice proposal titled, Exploring the Role of Emotions in Informal Science: Implications for the Design of more Effective Learning Experiences. The goal of the project is to conduct research that extends our knowledge of the influence of emotion on science learning in informal contexts in order to develop a framework of promising practices and tools that ISL practitioners could use to better foster emotions that support positive science learning outcomes. We are looking for partners who facilitate ISL programs, ideally immersive field programs for youth (middle to high school, although that is flexible), who would be willing to allow us to study their participants using surveys, interviews, and perhaps observations. We would also hope that the practitioners would be willing to participate in interviews about how they believe emotions affect learner outcomes. Finally, we are proposing to disseminate findings to ISL practitioners via webinars, so we would be most interested in partnering with programs whose practitioners would be interested in professional development around the topic of emotions in ISL learning. Please feel free to contact me at Nancy.Staus at oregonstate.edu<mailto:Nancy.Staus at oregonstate.edu> if you want more information or are interested in participating in our project.

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Nancy Staus, PhD  (she, her)
Senior Researcher
STEM Research Center
Oregon State University, 254 Gilbert Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331
Cell: 541-760-9968

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