Advancing Informal STEM Learning through Native Voices, Planetariums, and Reciprocal Collaboration
Funded by NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL), The Water Values pilot study explores how Native water stories, science, and sustainability learning can be presented to public audiences for reciprocal benefit and learning. The pilot study brings together the long standing Gidaa Camp (a Native STEAM education program at the Fond du Lac Reservation) and the Bell Museum.
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The youth will collaborate with the Bell Museum to create a public planetarium program based on water stories from their water learning journey using a model for art-led, environmental education called Earth Systems Journey (ESJ) developed by MDC's Jonee Brigham. The interdisciplinary project is led by Bhaskar Upadhyay of Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Diana Dalbotten of St. Anthony Falls Lab, and Jonee Brigham of MDC, in collaboration with Bell Museum, UMN-Duluth faculty and staff, and Gidaa Camp leaders, teachers, and youth mentors.