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Pop Up Tinker Shop Expansion

October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021 | Public Programs, Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks, Informal/Formal Connections

In partnership with early childhood service providers and elementary school systems, the Children's Museum of the Lowcountry will expand the reach of its programming to share its hands-on, play-based approach to STEM education with targeted children and educators. The museum will create a Power of Play curriculum with lesson plans that reflect best practices and focus on play-based activities to teach STEM concepts tied to grade level and state standards. The museum will train and support 40 teachers and educators from ten Head Start/First Steps early childhood centers and ten Title I elementary schools, and provide them with free Pop Up Tinker Shop (a museum on wheels) outreach visits. The trainings will build teacher confidence, promote best practices for play-based learning, support a community of practice, and enhance young learners' engagement, fascination, and attitude towards STEM. The Power of Play Curriculum will be published as a bound resource and shared with other children's museums and service providers.

Funders

IMLS
Funding Program: Museums for America
Award Number: MA-10-18-0058-18
Funding Amount: $97,422

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Starr Jordan
    Principal Investigator
    Children's Museum of the Lowcountry
  • Discipline: Engineering | General STEM
    Audience: Elementary School Children (6-10) | Pre-K Children (0-5) | Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Making and Tinkering Programs | Museum and Science Center Programs | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Professional Development and Workshops | Informal/Formal Connections | K-12 Programs | Pre-K/Early Childhood Programs
    Access and Inclusion: Low Socioeconomic Status

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