Research Study Title: Climate Ready, Set, Go: Research Study on Archives and K-12 Disaster Education
Summary of the Research Study: This study explores and analyzes youth and adult participant opinions, behaviors, and concerns on using archival materials in informal learning scenarios like after school activities, summer camps, or enrichment programs. Through this research study, the researcher investigates how learning and teaching about natural environments and the changes it undergoes can help mitigate emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive stress typically experienced during natural disasters.
By using historic and contemporary archival records and manifestation of materialized memories of past and present disasters.
Active Recruitment:
Focus Group Interviews (summer 2025)
Youth participants sign up: bit.ly/ArchivesDisasters2025-Y
Adult participants sign up: bit.ly/ArchivesDisasters2025-A
Collaborative Instructional Design sessions (autumn 2025 / winter 2026)
Adult participants sign up: to be announced
Non-Active Recruitment:
Contact Info for Researcher: Itza A. Carbajal / Email: itzac [at] uw [dot] edu
itzacarbajal.com 