Educators

City Capers features a variety of exhibit components, including the ShopRite Supermarket, Busy Build, Front Step (toddler area), Pat’s Shoe Store, CHOP Medical Center, and Captain Noah set.

Here are a few sample exhibit goals and educational objectives related to specific exhibit components that educators can take advantage of:

ShopRite Supermarket:

Exhibit Goal: Encourage healthy choices, social skills, physical activity, good nutrition, and foster environmental stewardship.

Educational Objectives:

• Broad Focal Experience: Social science, science, math
• Specific Learning Concepts: Matching, menu planning, ingredient selection, money identification, counting, color/shape identification, social skills, manners, coordination, listening skills, food identification, demonstrate flexibility and responsibility, develop social interactions
• Learning Modality as it relates to Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences: Visual Spatial, Verbal Linguistic, Mathematical Logical, Intrapersonal

In-museum and classroom activities associated with ShopRite Supermarket:

• Read: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
• Classroom: Paint with different types of food, make an abstract collage with pictures of food, illustrate healthy meals and menus.
• Create a kitchen concert with objects found in the supermarket and kitchen.
• Pretend Play: Clerk, bagger, shopper, baker, stock clerk, merchant, manager, parent, etc.

CHOP Medical Center:

Exhibit Goal: Help students understand their bodies, doctors and doctor’s offices by playing in the medical center.

Educational Objectives:

• Broad Focal Experience: Science, math, social studies
• Specific Learning Concepts: Role play, leadership, confronting fear about the doctor, money exchange, responsibility, develop self concept, refine and understand feelings and their body, develop self- care and self reliance, engage in healthy and safe play, concepts of health, healthful living, safety and injury prevention
• Learning Modality as it relates to Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences: Visual Spatial, Verbal Linguistic, Mathematical Logical, Interpersonal

In-museum and classroom activities associated with CHOP Medical Center:

• Read: Busy, Busy Town by Richard Scarry
• Pretend Play: Office manager, doctor, nurse, patient, parent, receptionist, medical professional, veterinarian, etc.