EcoTarium

The EcoTarium will explore the feasibility of expanding its role as a STEM-focused preschool educator. Working with an education professor and the early childhood specialist of the local school district, the museum will undertake a series of planning activities including preparing a demographic research report analyzing the current and potential preschool populations, reviewing the literature on preschool teaching and learning, scanning the museum’s current preschool offerings, developing a preschool advisory panel, developing a STEM-focused early childhood strategic plan, compiling a short list of college/university partners with which to work on the concept of a learning laboratory, and creating a list of criteria to explore the feasibility of developing a learning laboratory. These planning tools will be made available for other museums to use.