The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center is offering an innovative training
program for museum professionals and early childhood educators interested in
using objects to teach young children.

This two-day program, which will be held at the Smithsonian Institution on
July 24 and 25, 2003, will demonstrate how a host of museum
objects-including paintings, sculptures, an African headrest and a spinning
wheel-can help children, as young as two or three, learn about themselves
and the world around them.

Featuring hands-on exercises with museum objects, slide presentations,
lectures, and discussions, the program is designed to help museum educators
forge more creative encounters with young museum-goers, and to introduce
early childhood educators to the magic of museums.

Participants will be encouraged to think expansively about tapping
resources in their own communities-resources such as objects in local
museums and community centers, statues, public art, bridges, buildings, fire
hydrants and more.  All objects, even commonplace ones, tell stories.  But
you have to know how to read them.  That's what "Learning through Objects"
is all about.

For information contact:
Sharon Shaffer, Executive Director
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202-357-3077
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
P.O. Box 37012
Room CE-G50 MRC 184
Washington, DC 20013-7012

Amanda Clay, Museum Outreach Assistant
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202- 357-3077
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
P.O. Box 37012
Room CE-G50 MRC 184
Washington, DC 20013-7012

Seminar Dates:
July 24 and 25, 2003
Cost: $250.00 early registration
$275.00 after July 1, 2003
National Museum of Natural History

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