1:45 PM - 3:15 PM
[G01-P01] An outreach activity using a spherical display and evaluation of its effectiveness
Keywords:Spherical display, Climate change, Outreach activity
Recently, students in Japan have tended to lose interest in science, and that can have a severe impact on the growth of science and technology in Japan in the future. Still, science education is important in providing the necessary knowledge for appropriate responses and actions to mitigate the risk of natural disasters because they have become more severe as a result of climate change. We, a group of four graduate students from WISE program for Sustainability in the Dynamic Earth (SyDE), conducted an outreach activity to make visitors learn about climate change at the science event "Science Day" held in Sendai in July 2022. Specifically, we exhibited a spherical display and projected global changes of various atmospheric fields (e.g., temperature, precipitation) associated with climate change onto it.
By projecting atmospheric phenomena occurring onto a spherical display, visitors can perceive them from a different perspective from two-dimensional images like textbooks. This is expected to help visitors learn more about the projected phenomena. However, careful verification is needed to judge whether the learning experience using a spherical display brought a similar impression for all visitors. Therefore, we conducted a questionnaire survey against elementary and junior high school students who visited our exhibition to see if there were any differences in their impressions of the learning experience using a spherical display depending on their personal attributes. The result shows that there are no significant differences in their impression by age, gender, or motivation for participating in "Science Day".
In the presentation, we will introduce in detail our content in the exhibition of "Science Day", especially our efforts to make visitors learn about climate change effectively using the spherical display, and the results of the questionnaire.
By projecting atmospheric phenomena occurring onto a spherical display, visitors can perceive them from a different perspective from two-dimensional images like textbooks. This is expected to help visitors learn more about the projected phenomena. However, careful verification is needed to judge whether the learning experience using a spherical display brought a similar impression for all visitors. Therefore, we conducted a questionnaire survey against elementary and junior high school students who visited our exhibition to see if there were any differences in their impressions of the learning experience using a spherical display depending on their personal attributes. The result shows that there are no significant differences in their impression by age, gender, or motivation for participating in "Science Day".
In the presentation, we will introduce in detail our content in the exhibition of "Science Day", especially our efforts to make visitors learn about climate change effectively using the spherical display, and the results of the questionnaire.