Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education: "Invention at Play"

Lemelson发明研究中心与有趣的发明和探索网络（由六家博物馆组成的联盟）合作，将开发"游戏中的发明"。"这将是一个旅行展览在两个大小（3,500平方米。英尺&1，500平方米（英尺）探索游戏的价值及其在创造性人类发展中的关键作用。 观众将a）了解游戏如何培养儿童和成人的创造性人才; B）体验他们自己的游戏和创造性能力; c）了解儿童游戏如何与科学技术创新者使用的过程并行。 展览将分为三个部分：1）“创意剧场”，为参观者提供各种创意游戏活动，帮助他们了解游戏如何培养创造力和创造力; 2）“案例研究集群”，参观者将了解五位发明家的有趣习惯，以及3）"发明与游戏的问题"，参观者在这里了解将发明过程与儿童游戏联系起来的理论家的想法和辩论。 该展览基于Lemelson中心自1995年以来收集的关于过去和现在的发明家的文件，以及他们组织的研讨会，以研究创新过程的特征。 这项研究使人们对儿童游戏和发明家工作方式之间的惊人相似之处有了新的认识。 将制定一系列补充教育活动和方案，并记录在教育手册中。 这些节目将针对不同的观众，包括家庭、家长、教师和全国科学和儿童博物馆的其他群体，并将有助于扩大展览主题的影响，使其超出展览本身。 沿着将为每个地点开发和安排教师讲习班，并在与计算机有关的学校活动期间分发一本特别的教师手册，提供各种活动，主题是创造性游戏、解决问题的创造性模式、有趣的美国发明家生活中的有趣事件和习惯的示范性故事。 RK Associates已经完成了该项目的前端受众调查，并将进行总结性和补救性评估工作。& 展览原型将由明尼苏达科学博物馆展览承包商完成。

The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention in cooperation with the Playful Invention and Exploration Network (a consortium of six museums) will develop "Invention at Play." This will be a traveling exhibit in two sizes (3,500 sq. ft. & 1,500 sq. ft.) exploring the value of play and its critical role in the development of creative human beings. Audiences will a) learn how play fosters creative talents among children as well as adults; b) experience their own playful and inventive abilities; and c) understand how children's play parallels processes used by innovators in science and technology. The exhibit will be divided into three sections: 1) the "Invention Playhouse" where visitors will be offered a variety of creative play activities to help them understand how playing builds creative and inventive skills; 2) "Case Study Clusters" where visitors will learn about the playful habits of five inventors, and 3) "Issues in Invention and Play" where visitors learn about ideas and debates among theorists who have linked inventive processes to children's play. This exhibit is based on documentation collected by the Lemelson Center since 1995 from and about inventors of the past and present, and symposia they have organized to examine the characteristics of innovative processes. This research has led to new insights into remarkable parallels between children's play and the way inventors approach their work. A series of complementary educational activities and programs will be developed and documented in an Educational Manual. These programs will be aimed at diverse audiences including families, parents, teachers and other groups in science and children's museums nationwide and will help extend the impact of the exhibit theme beyond the exhibit itself. Teacher workshops will be developed and arranged for each venue along with a special teacher's manual that will be distributed during exhibit-related school events offering a variety of activities on the themes of inventive play, creative model of problem solving, and exemplary tales of playful events and habits in the lives of interesting American inventors. RK & Associates have done the front-end audience surveys for this project and will do the summative and remedial evaluation work. The exhibit prototyping will be done by the Science Museum of Minnesota exhibit contractors.