The project combines out-of-school time (OST) professional advisors, the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), and NASA experts from across the agency to use research-based strategies to develop afterschool activity guides adapted from NASA Planetary Science formal education curricula.
The project combines out-of-school time (OST) professional advisors, the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), and NASA experts from across the agency to use research-based strategies to develop afterschool activity guides adapted from NASA Planetary Science formal education curricula. The objectives of the project are to:
- enable OST professionals to provide engaging, enriching STEM experiences by using their input to adapt existing formal education curricula for out-of-school time use;
- develop a training model to build the capacity of OST leaders;
- develop and pilot an associated training video;
- pilot and evaluate the training in California and New York, and;
- disseminate the adapted model.
NIOST will provide evaluation services in support of all phases of the project. NIOST will review the adaptation of the activity guide development, provide input for a preliminary design of the training model and supplemental video, and identify ways for participants to progress in NASA OST educational offerings.
