Research on the design of parent-child worksheet in the museum context

Abstract

In the era of knowledge economy, the concept of lifelong learning has drawn people's attention gradually. Museum learning, one of the main forms of informal learning, has attracted visitors with its knowledge, entertainment and other characteristics. Therefore, the promotion of learning effect and learning experience of museum learning has also become a research focus. This study focuses on how to improve the learning effect of parent-child groups in museum. More specifically, it intends to promote parent-child interaction through design of parent-child worksheet, consequently help visitors understand the exhibits and improve the learning effects in museum. The paper consists of three aspects: 1. Design the questionnaire for parent-child museum learning, investigate the museum learning expectations, visiting methods, learning experience and expectation of worksheet of the family organizations in the museum, which could provide base for the following design of model of parent-child worksheets. 2. Design parent-child worksheet model. At this stage, this study investigates other researchers' design principles and strategies and designs a model of parent-child worksheets. 3. By a design-based approach, the solar system exhibition area and lunar meteorite exhibition area in planetarium are selected as the content for parent-child worksheet, then the worksheet is designed and applied.