How children play and learn

Hello readers all around the world,

today we visited the Children's Museum of Cincinnati. There any visitor find a quite a nice atmosphere for children to touch and interact with all the different objects of this museum. It's aim is to give kids the possibility to move a lot and try things how they work. Normall you don't find a museum which give such a variety of touching, putting on clothes, and moving things. Education is transfered in a way that it isn't felt like learning, it is implicit knowledge what the museum gives to any of there young visitors. In comparison to other museums it is seen as a chance to make the children bussy and relax. In general this cannot be said because in some stages parents and the kids work together as a team. Mum and Dad explain unknown and give guidance.

All parts of the museum are appropriate for each age. Depending on the age the children can do different activities, e. g. read information and play with all kinds of stuff.

I really liked the exhibit: Children just like me- A unique celebration of children around the world. By the introduction of foreign children, the young visitor gets to know other cultures. That's a good waw because these children belong to the same group. The exhibition tries here to awake intercultural competencies in the children, what means that are also other children with different skin-colours, faces, and so on in the world. For example is India teached to the kids with a possibility to put on a sari. Unfortunately there were to many written information. It is better to make more pictures, because the kids don't care about words.

Learning through exploratory is more effective, because it is easier to remember and is been kept in mind unconsciously. The real way of learning it is to put in action: "learning by doing". The role of the learning stuff isn't as strong as during classroom learning. Here it is more mentoring and the child repeats or learns by it's own.