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Preschoolers and Museums: An Educational Guide
by Dr. Sharon Shaffer
     $10.00 + $2.00 shipping & handling
 


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Museum Magic Video – This video offers an overview of museum-based learning for preschool and kindergarten children using the SEEC educational approach as a model.
     $19.95 +$3.50 shipping & handling
 

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Teaching Kits: 

Packaged in an easy-to-handle art portfolio, each teaching kit includes a variety of materials necessary for a successful lesson employing the SEEC approach to teaching.  Each kit contains art prints, children’s literature, and objects along with lesson plans appropriate for the classroom or museum.
 

 

A World of Lines

A World of Lines starts with a children’s classic in literature, Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson.  Children explore the many types of lines that make up the world through simple objects such as yarn, string, and pipe cleaners.  Reproductions of art works by such artists as Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Wayne Thiebaud broaden the exploration.  Lesson plans are included with language, science, music, and motor activities as well as extensive art enrichment activities.

     $27.50 + $8.50 shipping & handling
 


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The Rainforest

This ecology-based kit provides a unique look at a popular subject.  Lynne Cherry’s The Great Kapok Tree provides an emotional connection to this unique environment. Children explore artists’ perspectives on the rainforest by investigating the work of such artists as Henri Rousseau, Martin Johnson Heade, Frederick Edwin Church, and Frank Stella.  Simple objects such as artificial fern leaves offer multi-sensory experiences that make the rainforest environment come alive for children.  Lesson plans are included with language, science, music, and motor activities as well as extensive art enrichment activities.
     $27.50 + $8.50 shipping & handling

 

: : CUSTOMIZED CONSULTING : :

SEEC offers consulting that is customized to each client’s needs.  SEEC works with a wide range of organizations, from museums planning early childhood initiatives to community-based organizations seeking expertise in early childhood learning.  Consultants from SEEC also support schools interested in implementing more effective field trips or districts seeking an arts-based or object-based approach to learning in their curriculum.  We offer a wide variety of services that are customized to fit the needs of organizations interested in teaching young children in the museum environment or using museum-based methodology.

Customized consulting may include:

  • Licensing of the SEEC curriculum, Museum Magic
  • Conceptual planning and analysis for the development of new programs
  • Docent Training
  • Museum program development
  • Development of Thematic Resource Kits   Click Here for Image
  • Professional development for museum educators
  • Customized lesson plans
  • Field trips
  • Model lessons with a SEEC Master Teacher
  • Teacher training or in-service training (early childhood and elementary school levels)
  • Exhibit evaluation (from the point of view of children pre-school and younger)

Please contact Sharon Shaffer, Executive Director of SEEC, at 202.633.1399 or shaffers@si.edu for more information on customized consulting.

   

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