Vermont Center for the Book

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Nov 15, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.2

Gross Receipts

$427,052

Major Activities

Activity 2

What's the BIG Idea? was developed by Vermont Center for the Book with funding provided by the National Science Foundation. All of the What's the BIG Idea? content (activities, family programs, Discovery Centers, etc.) was first tested by 57 librarians from Houston, the state of Delaware, the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System in upstate New York and two Vermont towns. These four systems provided a mix of librarians from large and small, urban and rural librarians. During the pilot phase of the project these librarians engaged in four conferences focusing on "big" ideas critical to children's acquisition of basic math and science skills and concepts: Patterns and Relationships, Numbers and Operations, Change Over Time and Geometry and Spatial Sense. A National Advisory Panel informed the development of the program. The participating librarians converted what they learned into hundreds of programs in local libraries using project-created informational resources, books, and manipulatives. In addition, they enriched their circulating collections and outreach with What's the BIG Idea? circulating kits for families.

Filer

EIN

03-0340584