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Release Date: September 08, 2004

An Educational Approach To Fun

By Museum Tour Catalog
September 08, 2004

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Museum Tour’s products motivate children to pursue careers in science, math, and engineering, provide educators with unique teaching tools and compelling teaching experiences, and bring the entire family together for exploration and discovery.

PR9.NET September 08, 2004 - "Museum Tour’s products motivate children to pursue careers in science, math, and engineering, provide educators with unique teaching tools and compelling teaching experiences, and bring the entire family together for exploration and discovery. We differ from other catalogs in that we espouse ‘side by side’ opportunities that bring adults and children together as detectives and practitioners of learning," said Eichinger.

Some of Museum Tour’s side-by-side tools include adult and child pottery wheels, rock tumblers, looms, metal detectors, junior and senior board games and beginner and advanced language CDs. This year the catalog also found unique items to explore family heritage. And for the first time, Museum Tour offers linguistic selections for language development. Anyone searching for eco-friendly fun or community projects will find the expanded environmental, health and outdoor sections in this issue to be a natural resource.

Solving problems is largely what life is about. When there are no challenges, people tend to be bored and often look for new avenues to explore. Imagine the excitement of having an "Aha" realization from self-directed exploration or piqued interest that leads to many "Hmm" moments?

Investigation is at its peak with science activities. Engineering and scientific inventions are usually the result of detectives using tools and techniques for exploring the unknown. Museum Tour's science kits bring out the "Aha" experience that encourages the user to take the inventor’s path and develop the skills and motivation needed to further inquiry. The "Aha" and "Hmm" books available in this issue inspire a young person to think of life as a series of challenges, explorations, and solutions that are exciting and fun to realize. Education arenas refer to this as the "case method."

Many education programs now use the case method to teach. This system puts the learner in the driver’s seat by presenting challenging problems that need solving. In one sense, the child becomes a detective having to form hypotheses, conduct research, look for clues, and come to conclusions. Once interest is piqued, a child is willing to learn the facts and sits still for skill training. The question we should always ask is what is the best way to motivate children and adults to this end?

Consumers may visit museumtour.com or call 800-360-9116 to request a catalog. The Museum Tour Catalog is an annual publication of Informal Education Products, Inc.

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About Museum Tour Catalog

To create a retail catalog of quality, entertaining, educational products to extend the museum experience into the home while, at the same time, supporting and improving the financial position of our non-profit member institutions.