Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education: "Invention at Play"

小学、中学和非正式教育：“玩耍中的发明”

• 批准号: 0125417
• 负责人: Monica Smith
• 金额: $ 151.32万
• 依托单位: Smithsonian Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-01 至 2007-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0125417&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Elementary; Secondary; Informal; Education; Invention; Elementary; Secondary; Informal; Education; Invention

The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention in cooperation with the Playful Invention and Exploration Network (a consortium of six museums) will develop "Invention at Play." This will be a traveling exhibit in two sizes (3,500 sq. ft. & 1,500 sq. ft.) exploring the value of play and its critical role in the development of creative human beings. Audiences will a) learn how play fosters creative talents among children as well as adults; b) experience their own playful and inventive abilities; and c) understand how children's play parallels processes used by innovators in science and technology. The exhibit will be divided into three sections: 1) the "Invention Playhouse" where visitors will be offered a variety of creative play activities to help them understand how playing builds creative and inventive skills; 2) "Case Study Clusters" where visitors will learn about the playful habits of five inventors, and 3) "Issues in Invention and Play" where visitors learn about ideas and debates among theorists who have linked inventive processes to children's play. This exhibit is based on documentation collected by the Lemelson Center since 1995 from and about inventors of the past and present, and symposia they have organized to examine the characteristics of innovative processes. This research has led to new insights into remarkable parallels between children's play and the way inventors approach their work. A series of complementary educational activities and programs will be developed and documented in an Educational Manual. These programs will be aimed at diverse audiences including families, parents, teachers and other groups in science and children's museums nationwide and will help extend the impact of the exhibit theme beyond the exhibit itself. Teacher workshops will be developed and arranged for each venue along with a special teacher's manual that will be distributed during exhibit-related school events offering a variety of activities on the themes of inventive play, creative model of problem solving, and exemplary tales of playful events and habits in the lives of interesting American inventors. RK & Associates have done the front-end audience surveys for this project and will do the summative and remedial evaluation work. The exhibit prototyping will be done by the Science Museum of Minnesota exhibit contractors.

与嬉戏的发明和勘探网络合作（六个博物馆的财团）合作的勒样发明研究中心将开发“发挥作用”。 这将是一个三种尺寸（3,500平方英尺＆1,500平方英尺）的游览展览，探索游戏的价值及其在创造性人类的发展中的关键作用。 观众将a）学习如何在儿童和成年人中培养创造性的才能； b）体验自己的嬉戏和创造力； c）了解创新者在科学和技术中使用的儿童游戏如何相似之处。 展览将分为三个部分：1）“发明剧场”，将向访客提供各种创造性的游戏活动，以帮助他们了解演奏如何建立创造性和创造力的技能； 2）“案例研究集群”，访客将了解五个发明者的嬉戏习惯，以及3）“发明和播放的问题”，访客在其中了解了将创造性过程与儿童游戏联系起来的理论家之间的想法和辩论。 该展览是基于1995年以来Lemelson Center从过去和现在发明的文档收集的文档，以及他们组织的研讨会，以检查创新过程的特征。 这项研究导致了对儿童游戏与发明人进行工作方式之间显着相似之处的新见解。 一系列补充的教育活动和计划将在教育手册中开发和记录。 这些计划将针对多种观众，包括全国科学和儿童博物馆的家庭，父母，老师和其他团体，并将有助于将展览主题的影响扩展到展览本身之外。 将为每个场所开发和安排教师讲习班，并在与展览有关的学校活动中分发专门的教师手册，该活动将提供各种活动，以创造性游戏的主题，创造性的解决问题的创造模式以及有趣的美国发明者生活中的娱乐性活动和习惯。 RK＆Associates已为该项目进行了前端受众调查，并将进行总结和补救评估工作。 展览原型制作将由明尼苏达州科学博物馆展览承包商完成。