TY - GEN
T1 - Discussion prompts to support family engagement in science
T2 - 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2019
AU - Zimmerman, Heather
AU - McKinley, Zachary A.
AU - Kim, Soo Hyeon
AU - Grills, Katharine E.
PY - 2019/6/12
Y1 - 2019/6/12
N2 - Situated within a three-year design-based research project, this case study investigates how families learned about astroengineering. Eleven families (11 adults, 12 children) engaged in activities related to making a lunar rover in four library programs. To support their engagement in design tasks and engineering thinking, think-pair-share discussion prompts were employed between two-and four-times during workshops. Analyses of the implementation of the prompts by the astronomer leading the program and the family talk that resulted from the prompts found that parents were integral to supporting participation in the engineering activities. Youths often did not answer the astronomer's questions directly, instead, the parents re-voiced the prompts prior to the youths' engagement. The family prompts supported reUlecting upon prior experiences, deUining the design problem, and maintaining the activity Ulow.
AB - Situated within a three-year design-based research project, this case study investigates how families learned about astroengineering. Eleven families (11 adults, 12 children) engaged in activities related to making a lunar rover in four library programs. To support their engagement in design tasks and engineering thinking, think-pair-share discussion prompts were employed between two-and four-times during workshops. Analyses of the implementation of the prompts by the astronomer leading the program and the family talk that resulted from the prompts found that parents were integral to supporting participation in the engineering activities. Youths often did not answer the astronomer's questions directly, instead, the parents re-voiced the prompts prior to the youths' engagement. The family prompts supported reUlecting upon prior experiences, deUining the design problem, and maintaining the activity Ulow.
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U2 - 10.1145/3311927.3323122
DO - 10.1145/3311927.3323122
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2019
SP - 94
EP - 101
BT - Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 12 June 2019 through 15 June 2019
ER -