K–8 Educator Workshops - DuPage Children's Museum

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K–8 Educator Workshops

Integrating Playful Learning in Your Classroom

Explore how to seamlessly weave play into everyday lessons to enhance student engagement and learning. Through hands-on activities and creative strategies, you’ll discover how playful approaches can foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. Leave with practical tools and ideas that you can immediately apply to make learning fun, meaningful, and impactful for all students.

 

The Power of the Pencil: Using Drawing to Unlock Critical Thinking

Drawing is a powerful tool to enhance student understanding and spark deeper thinking. Practice multiple drawing strategies and discover how visual expression can support critical thinking, problem-solving, and content knowledge across all subjects. Learn inspiring techniques to integrate drawing into your lessons and empower students to think creatively and critically.

 

Turning Objects into Learning Explorations

Discover how to engage students with real-world objects to deepen understanding and make learning more interactive. Make observations of everyday and some unusual objects, leading to thoughtful inferences and investigable questions. Explore creative ideas and practical strategies to bring object-based learning into your classroom, creating a sense of wonder and curiosity in your students.

 

Creating Curious Classrooms

Empower students by teaching them to ask open-ended questions, a critical skill for deep learning and self-efficacy. Engage in the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) a structured and engaging process for generating and improving investigable questions. Bring this strategy back to your classroom and create a culture of questioning that enhances student engagement and discovery.

Play, Learn, Inspire!

Workshop Cost: $500 per 2-hour session for up to 30 people.
Includes all materials and a study tour of DCM exhibits. 

 

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Reach out to: Jenny Flowers, Director of Learning Partnerships, [email protected]