Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit
In this chapter we explore the activities and the learning outcomes of young children who visited a science centre and interacted with a technology exhibit, the Mitey Quarry,which was part of a larger, travelling exhibition called Mitey Science. The Mitey Quarry exhibit was developed for children of...
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| author | McClafferty, Terence Rennie, Leonie |
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| description | In this chapter we explore the activities and the learning outcomes of young children who visited a science centre and interacted with a technology exhibit, the Mitey Quarry,which was part of a larger, travelling exhibition called Mitey Science. The Mitey Quarry exhibit was developed for children of 3 to 8 years of age and designed to encourage children to experiment by manipulating its components, to observe and to predict likely outcomes. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-251412023-02-02T07:57:40Z Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit McClafferty, Terence Rennie, Leonie Eva Davidsson Anders Jakobsson In this chapter we explore the activities and the learning outcomes of young children who visited a science centre and interacted with a technology exhibit, the Mitey Quarry,which was part of a larger, travelling exhibition called Mitey Science. The Mitey Quarry exhibit was developed for children of 3 to 8 years of age and designed to encourage children to experiment by manipulating its components, to observe and to predict likely outcomes. 2012 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25141 Sense Publishers restricted |
| spellingShingle | McClafferty, Terence Rennie, Leonie Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit |
| title | Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit |
| title_full | Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit |
| title_fullStr | Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit |
| title_full_unstemmed | Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit |
| title_short | Look and learn: Young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit |
| title_sort | look and learn: young children’s behaviour at an interactive exhibit |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25141 |