Science Workshop Description
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The Children’s Museum of Houston’s Science Workshop at Edison Middle School is a hands-on, minds-on workshop that promotes learning through discovery. The guiding principles of the workshop are:
* Children need to be given freedom to develop their own path of inquiry
* Physical activity and the satisfaction of exploring, designing, and building things makes science more productive and fun
*Ignoring traditional boundaries between physical and biological sciences enables children to discovery the synergy between the sciences.
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The goal of the Science Workshop is to provide children grades three through eight with opportunities to take part in facilitated and self-initiated science projects.
The Science Workshop occupies a 2,500 square foot space at Edison Middle School. This space is filled with workbenches, a variety of saws, drills and sanders, plants, books, and projects in various stages of completion.
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| Children can utilize the exhibit space to examine and play with a variety of items as well as view projects developed by other children to help them find a path of exploration to pursue. They can tinker in the workshop area, where they learn to apply problem-solving, planning, and inquiry skills as they develop and explore their own self-initiated projects. |
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