American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History will develop, test, and evaluate a suite of adult learning courses on climate change through on-site and online instructional methods. The suite of courses, entitled Our Earth’s Future, will focus upon three themes – Islands, Oceans, and Our Species and Others – and will be built around individual “case studies” that provide narratives about the impact of climate change to guide participants’ learning. Each of these topics will be offered as a five-week on-site course and a facilitated three-week online course. These offerings will reach a total 450 adult learners over the course of the project. The project’s greater goal is to deepen the understanding of engagement strategies for adult learners in the 21st century museum.