Title,Recipient,Competition,"Fiscal Year","Award Number","Federal Funding","Principal Investigator",State,City,County,District,Lat/Long,"Grant Dates",Abstract,Partners "Worldviews Network: Ecological Literacy Programming for Digital Planetariums and Beyond","Denver Museum of Nature and Science","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080011,"$850,314","Ka Chun Yu",Colorado,Denver,Denver,CO01,"39.74752, -104.94087","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2014-09-30T00:00:00","The Worldviews Network - a collaboration of institutions that have pioneered Earth systems research, education and evaluation methods - is creating innovative approaches for engaging the American public in dialogues about human-induced global changes. Leveraging the power of immersive scientific visualization environments at informal science centers across the US, we are developing transformative educational processes that integrate the benefits of visual thinking, systems thinking, and design thinking. This ""seeing, knowing, doing"" approach empowers educators with tools and techniques that help audiences to visualize, comprehend, and address complex issues from a whole-systems perspective. The Worldviews Network will make explicit the interconnections of Earth’s life support systems across time and space as well as inspire community participation in design processes by providing real-world examples of successful projects that are increasing the healthy functioning of regional and global ecosystems","American Museum of Natural History, California Academy of Sciences, Institute for Learning Innovation, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, NASA Ames Exploration Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Bell Museum, Elumenati, Journey Museum & Learning Center, University of Michigan / Museum of Natural History, University of North Carolina at Asheville, WGBH Educational Foundation, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) National Center for Atmospheric Research, Fort Collins Museum of Discovery, Colorado State University / Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)" "Planet Earth Decision Theater","Science Museum of Minnesota","2010: ELG for Informal/Nonformal Education",2010,NA10SEC0080021,"$504,386","Patrick Hamilton",Minnesota,"Saint Paul",Ramsey,MN04,"44.94354, -93.09868","2010-10-01T00:00:00 - 2014-09-30T00:00:00","Through the Planet Earth Decision Theater project, the Science Museum of Minnesota and its partners will upgrade the museum's current SOS exhibit with new SOS learning experiences, produce for the SOS community a new SOS film about the role of humans as the dominant agents of global change and two new presenter-led SOS programs based on the film with one version utilizing an audience feedback mechanism called iClickers. SMM also will complement its Planet Earth Decision Theater and the Maryland Science Center's SOS exhibit with the addition of Rain Table (a new interactive scientific visualization platform) at both locations to further reinforce the Anthropocene messages of the new SOS film and programs. SMM will conduct extensive evaluations of the new SOS film, programs and Rain Tables. SMM's partners on this project include the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab, University of Minnesota's National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota's Antarctic Geospatial Information Center, University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, Maryland Science Center, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Institute for Learning Innovation, George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication, and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at University of Illinois-Chicago.","Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Institute for Learning Innovation, Maryland Science Center, Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) Chicago, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of Colorado Boulder / Fiske Planetarium, Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, George Mason University / Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), University of Minnesota / Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota / National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED)"