Move2Learn (M2L) is an international research-practitioner collaborative project, investigating how interactive museum exhibits can help young children aged 3-6 years express, communicate, and develop their scientific thinking. Major goals of the project include:

1. Develop a new practitioner/researcher interaction model to strengthen collaborations among informal learning practitioners and learning science researchers.
2. Understand the role of embodied interaction in young children’s learning about science.
3. Inform the intentional design of science exhibits and body-based communication.

US ADVISORS

Leilah Lyons PhD, University of Illinois and New York Hall of Science

Gillian Thomas, International Consultant

Laura Huerta Migus, Association of Children’s Museums (ACM)

Art Glenberg PhD, Arizona State University

Raquel Diaz PhD, University of Florida

Toni Dancstep PhD, ExplOratorium

Robb Lindgren PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

UK ADVISORS

Ruth Churchill Dower, Earlyarts

Penny Fidler PhD, UK Association of Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC)

Esme Glauert PhD, University College London, Institute of Education

Clare Meakin, National Museums of Scotland

Leigh-Anne Stradeski, Eureka! The National Children’s Museum

Research sites include six locations across the United States and United Kingdom, with the goal of gathering evidence of embodied interactions during science learning, and articulating design principles about how museum exhibits can most effectively encourage cognitive and physical engagement with science content and processes.

Our research sites are:

US:  Phillip and PatriciaFrost Museum of Science (Miami), The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis , Sciencenter (Ithaca, NY),

UK: Glasgow Science Centre, Science Museum (London), Learning through Landscapes

For an overview of what’s happening at each research site, click here.

Left: Courtesy of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.  Right: Glasgow science Centre (CC0)