"Bodies, the Exhibition," bills itself as a way to "enlighten, inform and inspire students to learn about the human body."
When school starts this fall, some Akron kids will start working to make it even better.
Alison White, grant communications coordinator for the Ohio STEM Learning Network's Akron Hub, says the National Inventors Hall of Fame School ... Center for STEM Learning approached Cleveland exhibit officials in June to see how the display of perfectly preserved human bodies (minus the skin) might be incorporated into STEM learning at the middle school. While touring the exhibit, educators identified two ways students might be able to help.
"We explained how our students don't just come to an exhibit and walk through and leave," White says. "We explained our project-based learning approach and how we like to present the students with a problem and then have them solve it."
"We noticed they don't have a kid's guide. They have all kinds of materials on their website if you want to download educational guides to talk about specific parts of the Bodies exhibit. But they didn't have anything for kids once they got there. So one of the things we talked about was having our students create a guide for kids who would be attending the exhibit. And it's something that once created they would use everywhere."
Also discussed was the possibility of creating an interactive video and "having our students provide the content and create it from their viewpoint," White says.
While a final decision hasn't been made about whether students will create a guide or a video, "we will do something with them this fall, before the exhibition leaves, that's for kids by kids."
Source: Alison White, Ohio STEM Learning Network Akron Hub
Writer: Gene Monteith