Tagged with "play"
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Strong National Museum of Play
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by Jason Jay Stevens Published October 01 2009
Strong National Museum of Play I came to visit Rochester's Museum of Play on a sunny, balmy summer afternoon. Attendance was brimming, significantly with children and groups of accompanying adults. Engagement was high along every vector. There is...
Giant Marimba
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by Joanna Fisher on April 08, 2010
This is a real Marimba at Discovery Gateway in SLC, UT, but it applies all 7 of the characteristics of family learning as identified in the PISEC study. And it really works -- Family groups and different...
Designing environments for play-based science learning
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by Wendy Pollock on January 31, 2011
The Fall 2011 issue of the journal Children, Youth, and Environments will explore multi-disciplinary perspectives on the role of play in science learning with a focus on out-of-school spaces designed...
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Underland
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by Justine Roberts Published February 15 2011
The outdoor exhibit space in Providence strikes me as a real challenge. It is long and narrow, wrapping around the corner of the building in an L. It is sandwiched between the building and the parking lot without much buffer - no break of trees for...
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Wizard of Oz
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by Daniel Zeiger Published April 01 2011
This exhibit is currently on display at the Children's Museum of Manhattan. The Wizard of Oz exhibition provides an exciting twist on common elements found in traditional children’s museums. Billed as an exhibit for all ages, much of this indoor...
Museums: "a safe meeting ground for families"
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by Wendy Pollock on April 21, 2011
Jeri Robinson reflects on the Boston Children's Museum's pioneering development of playspaces for very young children. "Just do something that's right for families and kids...Copy this, create something...
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TapeScape
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by Jeanne Vergeront Published April 28 2011
‘Who would think to build something like that?’ That’s what Eric Lennartson thought when he saw a photograph of a sculpture in a weekly e-mail from an architecture magazine. Eric is an architect in Mankato (MN) and on the board of the emerging...