A rainy forecast couldn't deter the tens of thousands of visitors who flocked to the 乐播传媒 of Maryland campus on Saturday to take part in more than 400 activities, performances, exhibits and events at .
The College of Education greeted guests with a diverse range of activities focused on learning and fun. Art education students and faculty invited visitors to dream up queries they would pose to a diplodocus and add them to a collaborative art piece inspired by Rachel Garber Cole鈥檚 鈥淨uestions for a Dinosaur.鈥 Guests made paper hats showing the sections of the brain and even got to see their own brains at work as they solved puzzles while wearing functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) caps, guided by the researchers from the Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) Lab. Families explored virtual reality with the Laboratory for Neurodevelopment of Reading and Language, sang and danced at a singalong with the Center for Young Children's own 鈥淢r. M鈥 (Eric Maring) and sharpened their math skills while playing games like Gobblet Gobblers, Deduckto and Qwixx with . Visitors met students from the program, which gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to participate in a college experience, as well as undergraduates minoring in disability studies and researchers from the . They participated in research studies to help the Social and Moral Development Laboratory learn how people evaluate social and moral issues in everyday life, and they made thank you cards for educators who are transforming education for good.
Explore some EdTerp highlights from Maryland Day in the slideshow below.
