Midwest Wild Weather – Summative Evaluation

Evidence from the data collected on the Midwest Wild Weather Project indicates that the teachers are very excited about its potential for increasing their students' science literacy and understanding of the scientific process, as well as increasing their knowledge of the weather and exciting them about science in general. Students are very focused, enthusiastic and excited when interacting with the exhibits and universally pleased with their exploration and explainer experiences. MWW is also effectively reaching the intended underserved and underrepresented students across the nine sites are being involved and exposed to the benefits of MWW. The public was involved via weather events at the nine museums and science centers and the collaborative relationship among the consortium members is exemplary and ninety-seven percent (97%) of teachers queried felt it was definitively a good use of tax dollars. The appendix of this report includes the pre- and post-test used by teachers in this study to assess changes in student learning.