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City on the Move LIVE! May 25 - 29

This week, we’re exploring the City on the Move exhibit! By the end of the week, you’ll have explored geometry with geoboards, simple machines with ramps, and spotting energy and movement in your neighborhood! Join us as we explore through activities, stories, a virtual gallery, and lots of free resources!

Educational Background

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Our City on the Move exhibit incorporates all the elements of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). Young children can explore using the mechanics of simple machines to make something move. They can take a theatrical approach by transforming into a train conductor, or use basic engineering to design a building using a variety of block and shapes.

Opportunities for children to engage in activities that promote problem solving, designing, and building will support a child’s development in executive function skills, vocabulary, persistence, and organizing information. Exploring a modified design process for young children can lay foundational skills for children to see themselves as problem solvers.

  • Cognitive Development – Children engaged in STEAM-related activities utilize critical thinking and executive function skills, fostering independence by taking an active role in their learning.
  • Language Development – Guests have opportunities to learn new vocabulary, ask questions, seek information, and engage in conversations about what they observe and discover.
  • Motor Skills – Children practice grasping and holding materials in their hand and fingers to explore objects such as measurement tools, blocks, and other manipulatives.

This week’s activities (all Facebook Live sessions at 10:30 AM):

MONDAY

Vito’s back to kick off City on the Move week and to act it out live on Facebook.


TUESDAY

Cori will show you how to make your own Geoboard to create and explore shapes and letters.

Generating Geoboards Explore how recycled materials around the house can become a space for geometric and literacy exploration!
Explore Activity Page | Download PDF


WEDNESDAY

Andrea’s back on Facebook Live and ready to ramp it up with inclined planes!

Ramp it Up Racetrack Use household materials to explore how angles can change how objects roll down ramps.
Explore Activity Page | Download PDF


THURSDAY

Take a walk with Liz and explore movement in the city.

Explorar como organizar una cantidad de algo usando un grafico

Vamos a Contar en Nuestra Cuidad (Let’s go count in our city) Para descargar un documento PDF para una actividad relacionada, haga clic aquí


FRIDAY

Vito closes out the week with a live story time: Windows, by Julia Denos.


Over the weekend, check out our recorded Story Times, Home Zone activities, and free Learning Resources!


 

Home Zone highlights:

  • Airplanes: Let’s Fly
  • Spotting Simple Machines
  • Story read-aloud: Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

  • Family Resources:

    • Planes, Trains, Cars, and Bikes: Preschoolers Study Transportation
    • Rosie Revere, Engineer Read Aloud in Space
    • More Than a Foundation: Young Children Are Capable STEM Learners
    • Clarendon Early Childhood Education Preschool STEM download PDF
    • Andrea Beaty free STEM activites

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