An Innovative Training Program
"Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Children"
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
June 28 and 29, 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 at
(202) 357-3077
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC 20560
Seminar Dates:
June 28 and 29
Cost: $225.00 early registration
$250.00 after June 1st
The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center is a pioneer in museum-based preschool
education. Since 1988, SEEC has used museum objects to help children probe
the world and all that is in it, to distinguish between real and pretend, and
to discover and celebrate cultures other than their own. That's the magic of
museums. That's the magic of SEEC!
Registration
"Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Children"
Name:
_____________________________________________________________________________
Address:
___________________________________________________________________________
City, State and Zip code
______________________________________________________________
Phone: (work)
_______________________________(fax)___________________________________
Place of Work:
______________________________________________________________________
Address:
___________________________________________________________________________
City, State and Zip code
______________________________________________________________
Position:
____________________________________________________________________________
(Specify museum background or early childhood background)
Attach a check for $225.00 (prior to June 1st) payable to SEEC. Cost will be
$250.00 after June 1st. Early registration of two or more participants from
the same organization (or museum/ school partnership) will reduce the cost to
$200.00. The conference fee is non-refundable. The fee includes seminar,
lunch and seminar notebook. Please notify us at least three weeks in advance
of any special needs.
Send Registration and check to:
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
Sharon Shaffer
National Museum of Natural History
10th and Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20560
Location of Seminar:
Smithsonian Institution
African Art Lecture Hall
Dates: June 28 and 29, 2000
Time: 8:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Transportation: Smithsonian Metro Stop (Orange or Blue Line)
For information contact: Sharon Shaffer
Phone: (202) 357-3077
Fax: (202) 357-2818
* A confirmation letter will be mailed to each participant giving specific
location of the seminar. Space is limited.
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