Parents looking to support their children’s learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) will find no ...

The best children's museums in the country have interactive exhibits where kids want to linger, playing is encouraged, and learning is a byproduct of the fun.

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Naperville's DuPage Children's Museum always has taken play very seriously. At least since the late 1990s, the museum has conducted some level of research and audience evaluation — not for marketing, ...

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At Johnson County Public Library, one of our core values is supporting life-long learning for our community. This includes traditional learning — picking up a book or taking an online class offered ...

Loveland kids were off from school Friday, but had no shortage of activities to do and places to be. Friday was Children’s Day in downtown Loveland, an annual event hosted by the city and Thompson ...

When learning starts to feel like play, education stops preparing kids for the future and begins letting them ...

What happens if you stop teaching young children through direct instruction and instead set up purposeful opportunities to play? They could learn just as much when it comes to literacy, numeracy and ...

Barbara McCreight tucked her thumb into her palm and raised all four fingers on her right hand, the American Sign Language letter B. "Blue!" cried 6-year-old Cooper Green, pointing to the blue plastic ...

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...