“Where’s your monster going?”: Children’s story and STEM talk during tinkering and reflections

March 23rd, 2024 | RESEARCH

We asked whether storytelling during a playful problem-solving activity (i.e., tinkering) in informal educational settings (a children’s museum) might support children’s provision of engineering information in their reflections immediately after tinkering.

Document

Poster

Team Members

Grace Ocular, Author, Loyola University Chicago
Neva Lang, Author, Loyola University Chicago
Lauren Pagano, Author, Northwestern University
Catherine Haden, Author, Loyola University Chicago

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Award Number: 1906839

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Award Number: 1906940

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
Award Number: 1906808

Related URLs

Collaborative Research: Making Space for Story-Based Tinkering to Scaffold Early Informal Engineering Learning

Tags

Audience: Educators | Teachers | Elementary School Children (6-10) | Learning Researchers | Museum | ISE Professionals | Parents | Caregivers
Discipline: Education and learning science | Engineering | General STEM
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Research
Environment Type: Conferences | Informal | Formal Connections | Making and Tinkering Programs | Museum and Science Center Exhibits | Museum and Science Center Programs