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

  • Building
  • Collecting & Sorting
  • Construction
  • Counting 1-2-3
  • Exploring Growth
  • Exploring Shapes
  • Exploring Weather
  • Making Sets
  • Maps and Directions
  • Number Patterns
  • Part-Part-Whole
  • Patterms & Relationships Everywhere
  • Recognizing Same & Different
  • Shadows
  • There are 4 Librarian Kits in the What's the BIG Idea? series:

  • Shapes and Spaces
  • More Than Counting - coming soon
  • Patterns and Relationships - coming soon
  • Growing and Changing - coming soon
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    The National Science Foundation (NSF) wishes to expand education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics into community organizations. They call it “informal science” or science outside the classroom. In our grant proposal to NSF, we proposed to help that most accessible of community resources—the public library—become a place where science and mathematics programming, especially for young children and their families, becomes part of library practice. This includes not only programs like story hours, but also reference and loan materials, displays, and other communications with and programming for library patrons.

    The audience focus for the books and materials is on programs and resources for children ages 3-7 and their families.

    The content focus is on the four “BIG Ideas” of math and science that early childhood education experts tell us children need to encounter and begin to have experience with before they begin school. You will immediately recognize that the reason children need to encounter these ideas early is that they play an important role in all of our lives every day. Those four BIG Ideas are:

    • Patterns and Relationships
    • Change Over Time
    • Geometry and Spatial Sense
    • Numbers and Operation

    Based on the work we do over the next four years—conferences, in-library experiences, community partnerships and thinking and re-thinking book selections and investigations—we will create a professional development model for libraries large and small, urban and rural throughout the country.

    To accomplish this, we will investigate these questions:

    • How can the public library become a science and mathematics learning center for young children and their families?
    • What information and training do librarians need in order to make science and mathematics learning come alive for young children?
    • What information, knowledge and materials do librarians need in order to infuse science and mathematics content into their practice, programming, collections and displays?
    • Who are the community resource partners who will augment this effort?
    • How can the answers to these questions be disseminated nationally?


     

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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.

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