Saturday, December 1 and Sunday, December 2- 9:00am-3:00pm
Cooper-Hewitt Design Center, 111 Central Park North
Contact: Kadrena Cunningham at CunninghamK@si.edu
Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is offering a community based design education program for educators that will integrate collaborative problem solving and design thinking. The program applies design education to a neighborhood context, providing access to museum and community resources (architecture, streetscapes, maps, historic and cultural materials), including subject-matter experts and content knowledge. Educators will have the opportunity to explore a neighborhood’s past, analyze its present and plan for its future. The program presents a method for extending the classroom into the community, and integrating project-based, experiential learning into any existing curriculum. The strategies gained in A City of Neighborhoods can be used to transform the neighborhood into a visual textbook, making any subject area immediately relevant to students by directly relating to their real-life experience.
Math and Science educators are strongly encouraged to apply. A stipend will be paid to each participating teacher after the submission and approval of all the items below:
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Participation and attendance in both workshop days.
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The completion of a design-based lesson plan in partnership with Cooper-Hewitt.
Please fill out your information below to register for this event. Registration available on a first come first served basis
