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Join us and explore techniques to help young children use scientific practices, develop science skills, and cultivate a STEM mindset! In this session, Ann Caspari (National Air and Space Museum) will demonstrate questioning, close-looking, model-making, and dramatic play techniques to help children make personal connections to science, technology, engineering, and math content while applying their developing theories. You’ll leave with digital resources for your early childhood classrooms and strategies to develop lasting STEM skills. Optional: bring a paper bag and scissors to practice a maker activity with us!

Session Collection
Cultivating a STEM Mindset in Young Learners: https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/cultivating-a-stem-mindset-in-young-learners/OVk9uDLgNrPW6yZ2

00:00 Introduction
09:40 Session Agenda and Objectives
11:35 STEM Mindsets
17:06 Looking Closely and Wondering
33:40 Story and Narrative
45:43 Imaginative Play
53:25 Putting it into Practice and Q&A
59:27 Session Collection Overview
1:03:02 Conclusion

This interactive webinar, originally recorded on Zoom, is part of “Cultivating Learning,” a professional development webinar series focusing on techniques to use digital museum resources for learning. Check out “Cultivating Learning” and other Smithsonian Learning Lab webinars: https://learninglab.si.edu/about/events

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Illustration of two children wearing paper bag helmets while riding scooters and exploring Mars. Diane Kidd, National Air and Space Museum.

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