Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center's collections
Riding on a Carousel
<p>OBJECTIVES</p><ul><li>Look carefully at a variety of carousel animals </li><li>Identify the animals </li><li>Compare and contrast the animals </li><li>Talk about which animals people typically ride</li><li>Talk about real vs pretend</li><li>Create a model carousel</li></ul>
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Sink Float
<p>OBJECTIVES:</p>
<ul><li>Experiment with objects to see if they sink or float</li><li>Learn that boats float</li><li>Discuss how sometimes boats sink and learn the word shipwreck </li><li>Look closely at the 3D model of the Philadelphia Gunboat (a boat which sunk and was then later brought to the surface and into the Natural History Museum)</li><li>Make ships out of aluminum foil and experiment to see how many pennies can go on the boat before it sinks</li></ul>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Hot Air Balloons
<p>OBJECTIVES:<br /></p>
<ul><li>Explore the differences between the positions up and down</li><li>Imagine what it would look like to float high in the sky</li><li>Identify the parts of a hot air balloon—basket and envelope </li><li>Experiment with hot air balloon design</li><li>Be inspired to create own fabric design</li><li>Discover that the flame heats the air causing the balloon to float up</li></ul><p></p>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Dramatic Play Pirate
<p>Objectives:</p><ul><li>Be exposed to pirate motifs (eye patch, parrot, jolly roger flag) </li><li>Learn that pirate sail ships </li><li>Talk about ideas of fair and unfair, hero and wrongdoers </li><li>Learn about Anne Bonny and Mary Read two famous women pirates </li><li>Explore through play fair and unfair and hero and wrongdoers </li></ul>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Saturn V Rockets
<p>Objectives</p>
<ul><li> Learn that astronauts took rocket ships (Saturn V) to the moon </li><li> Pretend to be on the moon</li><li> Imagine being in a place that is different from earth</li></ul><p></p>
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Pretend Robots
<p>Objectives</p><ul><li>Learn closely at a variety of fictional and toy robots</li><li>Compare and contrast a group of fictional and toy robots</li><li>Develop an understanding that people like to imagine different types of robots</li><li>Have the opportunity to create their own pretend robot using various household items</li><li>Think creatively and be inspired to wonder</li></ul>
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Stanley - The Driverless Car
<p>Objectives </p>
<ul><li>Learn that robots need special sensors to help them understand the world around them</li><li>Discover that we use our senses to help learn more about the world around us</li><li>Explore our senses</li><li>Compare our senses to the senses of Stanley the driverless car </li></ul>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Robots that Help
<p>OBJECTIVES:<br /></p>
<ul><li>Learn that people make robots to do things to help people </li><li>Look closely at a robot that some people have in their house</li><li>Learn about other types of helping robots </li><li>Talk about why robots are made</li><li>Learn that robots are designed with a purpose </li><li>Think about times when it might be helpful to have a robot </li><li>Use creativity to design robots </li></ul>
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Fire Engine vs Fire Pumper
<p>Objectives: </p>
<ul><li> Learn that firefighters are people who help keep you safe</li><li> Discover that firefighters use fire trucks to help them get to the fire quickly</li><li> Compare familiar firetrucks to the less familiar hand pump fire truck in the museum</li></ul><p></p>
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Fire Safety
<p>Objectives </p><ul><li>Identify objects that help to prevent fires </li><li>Learn what to do if they hear an alarm </li><li>Identify objects that are fire hazards</li><li>Learn to stay 3 feet (two big steps) away from fire hazards</li></ul>
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Firefighting Dogs
<p>Objectives:</p><ul><li>Learn about firefighting dogs</li><li>Walk by a working fire station and make observations</li><li>Practice identifying different scents </li><li>Explore the sense of smell </li></ul><p><br /></p>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Expressing Emotions
<p>Objectives</p><p>● Identify facial features<br />● Learn about different ways to communicate<br />● Discover that the way your face looks can communicate emotions<br />● Explore different emotions and how faces might look when expressing emotions<br />● Build empathy by learning how others might express their emotions</p><p></p>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Emotion Eruptions
<p>Objectives </p><ul><li>Build an emotional literacy </li><li>Discuss ways to calm down body instead of erupting </li><li>Use bells to practice breathing and mindfulness</li><li>Explore ancient bells of China</li></ul>
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Volcano Eruptions
<p>Objectives - </p><p><br /></p><ul><li>Learn that active volcanoes erupt </li><li>Discover that volcanoes erupt when pressure builds up </li><li>Experiment with eruptions </li><li>Learn that some mountains are volcanoes </li></ul><p><br /></p>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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How to Build a Car
<p>Objectives:</p><p></p><p>● Discover ways that cars are built<br />● Learn about welding and comparing welding statues to welding cars<br />● Investigate and explore car tools<br />● Learn about car mechanic</p><p></p>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Wheels and Axles
<p>Objectives:</p>
<ul><li>Identify the shape of a wheel</li><li>Experiment with differently shaped wheels </li><li>Learn that wheels and axles help heavy things move </li></ul>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Car Design
<p>Objectives: </p><ul><li>Discover that cars come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors </li><li>Learn that some design elements improve functions of cars and some are purely aesthetic </li><li>Have the opportunity to design own car </li></ul><p><br /></p>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Monkeys Grasp
<p>Objectives</p>
<ul><li>Compare movements of the flying trapeze artist to the movements of monkeys swinging from the trees </li><li>Imagine what it would feel like to swing (like a trapeze artist and like a monkey)</li><li>Learn about how monkeys move </li></ul>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Flying Trapeze
<p>Objectives</p>
<ul><li>Learn that trapeze artists had to be very precise with their timing</li><li>Experiment with motion and pendulums </li></ul>
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center
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Dinosaurs
<p>Explore the vast resources on dinosaurs that the Smithsonian has to offer. </p><p>This collection was created by Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center faculty member. #SEECStories<br /></p>
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Communication
<p>How do you communicate? Through words? Body language? A look? Explore this collection to see how people, and animals communicate.</p><p>This collection was created by Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center faculty member. #SEECStories<br /></p>
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