Author Archives: Christina Smiraglia

Exploring Systems through Objects: A Close Look at Student Work (Part 2)
Hello again! I hope you enjoyed my previous post in this two-part series, where I discussed how I came to explore students’ diagrams from the Connecting Everyday Objects to Bigger Systems footstep in the Out of Eden Learn (OOEL) curriculum and the three different areas of focus I found in student work. In this post, […]

Exploring Systems through Objects: A Close Look at Student Work (Part 1)
I’m a relatively new addition to the Out of Eden Learn (OOEL) team, although I’ve been working at Project Zero for almost a decade. Part of my background is in museum education, so I’m particularly interested in learning experiences that incorporate objects, whether works of art on a gallery wall, natural history specimens under glass, […]