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

ESI-9801774安德森佛蒙特州图书中心目前通过非正式的科学教育项目“鹅妈妈问“，在佛蒙特州接触到1,000多名家长。“通过该计划，示范性的儿童文学和相关的科学活动被带到学龄前儿童的家长在一系列的四个阅读/讨论/活动会议。参与者探讨诸如“它是什么？”、“有多少”、“你是怎么做的？”和“它是如何成长的？“并获得专业知识和信心，向他们3-7岁的孩子介绍科学。许多参与的家长都是通过“开端”、成人基础教育和家长中心等方案接触到的。在目前的这个项目中，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父母提供该方案，为他们的州图书馆和州图书中心提供设备，以便在当地图书馆和图书馆服务外展网站、住房项目、美洲土著保留地和监狱中开展该方案。佛蒙特中心将对图书馆专业人员进行该计划内容和过程的培训，并在新网站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，“你可以指望鹅妈妈”，这将是基于书籍和活动，通过家长可以介绍他们的学龄前儿童的基本数学思想。一旦创建和现场测试，这个新的程序将被传播到所有参与网站。

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.