Mother Goose Asks "Why?" A Literature and Science Activity Program for Young Parents Through Libraries in 14 States

ESI-9801774 Anderson 佛蒙特州图书中心目前通过非正式的科学教育计划“鹅妈妈问“为什么？”覆盖了佛蒙特州的 1,000 多名家长。通过该计划，通过一系列四次阅读/讨论/活动课程，向学龄前儿童的家长介绍示范性儿童文学和相关科学活动。参与者探讨诸如“它是什么？”、“有多少”、“你是如何做到的？”和“它如何生长？”等问题。并获得向 3-7 岁的孩子介绍科学的专业知识和信心。许多参与其中的家长都是通过启蒙计划、成人基础教育和家长中心等项目接触到的。在当前的项目中，佛蒙特州图书中心向其他 12 个州、哥伦比亚特区和维尔京群岛的家长提供该计划，为他们的州立图书馆和州图书中心提供装备，以便在住房项目、美洲原住民保留地和监狱的当地图书馆和图书馆服务外展点开展该计划。佛蒙特中心将就该计划的内容和流程对图书馆专业人员进行培训，并在新站点开始实施该计划时提供技术支持。与此同时，佛蒙特中心将创建另一个项目“你可以依靠鹅妈妈”，该项目将以书籍和活动为基础，通过该项目，家长可以向学龄前儿童介绍基本的数学思想。一旦创建并经过现场测试，这个新计划将被分发到所有参与站点。

ESI-9801774 Anderson The Vermont Center for the Book currently reaches over 1,000 parents in Vermont through the informal science education program, Mother Goose Asks "Why?." Through the program, exemplary children's literature and related science activities are brought to parents of preschool children in a series of four reading/discussion/activity sessions. Participants explore such questions as "What Is It?", "How Many", "How Do You Do It?", and "How Does It Grow?" and gain the expertise and confidence to introduce science to their 3-7 year old children. Many of the parents involved are reached through programs such as Head Start, Adult Basic Education, and Parent Centers. In this current project, the Vermont Center for the Book with make the program available to parents in 12 other states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands by equipping their state libraries and state centers for the book to conduct the program in local libraries and library service outreach sites in housing projects, on Native American reservations and in prisons. The Vermont Center will train library professionals in the content and process of the program and provide technical support as the new sites begin implementation of the program. At the same time, the Vermont Center will create another program, "You Can Count on Mother Goose," that will be based in books and activities through which parents can introduce their preschool children to basic mathematics ideas. Once created and field-tested, this new program will be disseminated to all of the participating sites.