Good Will Home Association

The Good Will Home Association’s L.C. Bates Museum will implement its Very Young Naturalist project, designed to reach rural, mostly low-income preschool children and their families with a combination of outreach and museum-based science education programming. The project activities will focus on developing young children’s school readiness, literacy, and basic science skills through guided explorations of regional wildlife. This project will bring a series of natural history programs to 34 classrooms at six childcare programs with eight preschool sites, assemble five preschool science labs to lend to preschool teachers, create four cable-TV programs of the presentations, and offer family museum programs for young children and their families.