Kohl Children's Museum

Kohl Children’s Museum will partner with National-Louis University and Selinda Research Associates to research and plan a template to test the effectiveness of free-choice learning on children between one and eight years of age within the Kohl Children’s Museum. The research design created through the planning grant will explore a number of specific questions: How does museum learning transfer to schools and family settings? How do children benefit from guided discovery? Does exposure to natural environments improve children’s cognitive development? And, how do informal free-choice environments stimulate social interactions?