What’s the BIG Idea? Workshop ™: Harrisburg

There is What’s the BIG Idea? ™ training on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at PATTAN in Harrisburg from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00- p.m.

Maureen Miller, Children’s Librarian from Lewes Public Library in Delaware, and Youth Services Advisor, Anne Kruger from Commonwealth Libraries will provide a training session on incorporating math and science into your early childhood programming.

What’s the BIG Idea? ™ will help you make math and science connections to the programs you’re already doing with young children and their families. It will help you bring science and mathematics content, skills and processes to almost any interaction you have with them.

With What’s the BIG Idea? ™ you will:

* Increase the number of children attending your programs
* Get children excited about math and science
* Use hands-on activities to make books come alive
* Meet national and state education standards
* Have fun!

Children learn math and science by doing math and science. They need to ask questions, have discussions, explore using a variety of materials, collect data and talk about what they’re doing. Picture books are a powerful tool to help introduce children to math and science. Make your story hours come alive with math and science activities for young children and their families.

Cost of the workshop is $10.00 and includes lunch

Please make checks payable to Altoona Area Public Library.
Registration deadline is 5 pm on Monday, May 3, 2010.

Registration is online only at:2010&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=ALL&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp
Please bring payment with you to the workshop

Public library staff will be granted 4.5 hours of continuing education credit.

If you require any accommodations to make this program accessible, please call:
Voice: 717-783-5738 OR TTY: 717-772-2863

This workshop are sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries and supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act administered through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries.

Agenda

9:00 am Registration
9:30 am Morning session begins
10:30 am Break
12:00 pm Lunch* (included in fee)
1:00 pm Program continues
2:15 pm Break
3:00 pm Wrap up and Evaluations