DoSeum

The San Antonio children's Museum will build a bridge between the formal learning environments of San Antonio's elementary schools and the informal environment of the museum's makerspace. The project will target teachers and students at low performing public elementary school in the surrounding three counties. The participating schools, which primarily serve low-income children, offer little STEM education. The project will include an inquiry-based engineering process design curriculum; training, support, and materials for educators to use the curriculum; and visits to The children's museum's makerspace workshop to augment the classroom curriculum. The museum hopes to increase students' knowledge of engineering design, improve teachers' proficiency in teaching engineering design, strengthening the partnership with school and district administrators, create an effective schools-museum STEM methodology that can be replicated, and increase the museum's outreach to and impact on students from low income communities.