The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center is offering an innovative training
for museum professionals and early childhood educators interested in using
objects and artworks to teach young children on October 27th and 28th,
2005.

This two-day seminar will be offered at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, DC. Participants will learn how a host of museum objects -
including paintings, sculpture, and African headrest, and a old-time
chestnut roaster - can help children, as young as two years old, understand
their world. 

Participants will be encouraged to think expansively about using children's
literature, art and objects to create explorations of thematic topics.
Museum professionals will learn more about a mostly untapped audience of
infant through eight year old children and how to make the museum
environment meaningful to them. All objects, even commonplace ones, tell
stories. That what "Learning Through Objects" is all about.

Cost: $275 Early registration (before October 1st)
          $300 after October 1st

To register: contact one of our museum education specialists at 
[log in to unmask] 

Ann Caspari, Senior Museum Education Specialist
Lynann Derrick, Museum Education Specialist
Maria del Carmen Cossu, Museum Education Specialist                        
     

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