The Wild Center

The Wild Center will use its grant for the planning phase of a project called,"Visual Literacy Naturally.” Partners include LP Quinn Elementary School and the nonprofit Visual Thinking Strategies. This multiyear museum-school collaboration will adapt an innovative teaching strategy to include art and natural history as a way of enhancing critical thinking skills, observation, visual literacy and other 21st century skills in elementary students; model an optimized museum-school relationship; and explore the feasibility of using the Visual Thinking Strategies methodology for natural history and science museum public visitors.