Mother Goose Programs | Math and Science

MATH & SCIENCE LITERACY CONNECTIONS

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"What's the BIG Idea? has opened up my mind to many rich experiences for the children at my library programs. Parents are motivated the program because they discover that learning is exciting and that they are capable of leading their children in exploring, experimenting, and observing their surroundings and learning through carefully crafted activities, frequent reading, and thoughtful conversation."
—Public Librarian in Houston, TX

"I never knew learning could be so much fun! Building, sorting, collecting data—the children in my programs are clamoring for more!"
—New York public librarian

Full Librarian Kits

Make your story hour come alive with math and science activities for children and families.

There are 4 kits in the What's the BIG Idea?™ series:

Shapes and Spaces ($349.00)(Available June 1, 2008)(preorder at $314.00 prior to June 1)

More Than Counting - coming soon
Patterns and Relationships - coming soon
Growing and Changing - coming soon

Math and Science Kits

Great for:
Families with Young Children
Libraries
Child-Care Centers

There are 14 kits in the What's the BIG Idea? series:

Building ($36.99) Making Sets ($34.99)

Collecting & Sorting ($32.99) Maps and Directions ($32.99)

Construction ($36.99) Number Patterns ($32.99)

Counting 1-2-3 ($30.99) Part-Part-Whole ($36.99)

Exploring Growth ($36.99) Patterns & Relationships Everywhere ($32.99)

Exploring Shapes ($36.99) Recognizing Same & Different ($32.99)

Exploring Weather ($32.99) Shadows: ($27.99)

Here's a quick look at what Librarian Ellen Campos from Houston Public Library organized for a What's the BIG Idea?™ program on Change Over Time and Growth:

What’s the BIG Idea?™ is a program created by Mother Goose Programs™ with funding provided by the National Science Foundation. This program provides professional development and materials to help public librarians incorporate math and science into their programming and resources for young children ages 3-7 and their families. Sixty librarians from Houston, the state of Delaware, the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System in upstate New York and two Vermont towns have to date engaged in two conferences focusing on “big” ideas critical to children’s acquisition of basic math and science skills and concepts: Patterns and Relationships, Numbers and Operations, Change Over Time and Geometry and Spatial Sense.

The participating librarians have converted what they learned into hundreds of programs in local libraries using project-created informational resources, books, and manipulatives. They have enriched their circulating collections and outreach with What’s the BIG Idea? kits for families, listed above on this page.

The Mother Goose Programs team in Vermont administers the program, with assistance from a National Advisory Panel.

Part 1 of the What's the BIG Idea?™ Librarian Kit will be available June 1, 2008. In the meantime, the Building section is available for free download.

For an overview of the program visit: What's the BIG Idea?™

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0514746. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.