The original intention for the completion and opening of the Shanghai World Expo Museum was to record and participate in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation-China’s presence on the international stage of the World Expo and the “successful, wonderful and unforgettable” grand event of the Shanghai World Expo; relying on the World Expo’s international community, as Non-governmental diplomatic platforms promote exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations.
Museum and school co-construction
Based on the World Expo Museum’s position as a “window of the world, the source of creativity”, the World Expo Museum has set up a Museum-school co-construction project since 2017. Extracurricular education and cultural practices for young people are closely coordinated with primary and secondary schools, integrate the contents of the exhibition into the school's regular social practice activities and ideological and political education courses, and strive to create a "second classroom" outside the school, to implement the education policy of combining education with social practice, promote good exchanges between libraries and schools and explore and form education Work together to fulfill the requirements of the general secretary "a museum is a big school".
WE KIDS
Mobile World Expo
The World Expo is a timepiece of progress and a record of world development; the World Expo will stimulate human energy, ambition and wisdom and enhance human creativity. The World Expo is closely related to human life, and it also makes human life more colorful. The "Mobile World Expo" entered the campus in the form of a small temporary exhibition, sending the contents of the museum to the school to carry out a tour exhibition, enriching the interest of the majority of primary and secondary school students.
At the same time, the campus activities are accompanied by the WE KIDS series of educational courses independently developed by the World Expo Pavilion, the "World Expo Class", curator's series of guided lectures on aesthetic education to guide and encourage young students to carry out in-depth thinking, learning, and inquiry practice.
Shanghai Chongming District Yu An Secondary School
Shanghai Primary School Affiliated Anting Normal School
Shanghai Zhuhang Middle School
Shanghai Huangpu District No.3 Zhonghua Road Primary School
Shanghai Qingpu Senior High School
"Mobile Expo" combines the teaching content of relevant courses in primary and secondary schools, and develops moral education, aesthetic education courses and scientific innovation practices in the form of museum -school cooperation, guiding students to understand the historical heritage of the Expo through visits, learning, exchanges and experiences, and to find the track of cultural development stimulates students' patriotism, explores the mysteries of science and technology, and actively spreads the humanistic spirit contained in the World Expo.
"Mobile Expo" adopts an experiential learning strategy. Through the visit of exhibition items, the experience of interactive installations transforms knowledge into ability and internalizes ability into culture. The museum's supporting course "World Expo Class" helps students to further understand and absorb through lively and interesting situational performances. At the same time, the "Mobile World Expo" provides students with a lot of opportunities for cooperation, allowing students to learn with problems, and encouraging them to complete learning tasks and harvest learning results through collective strength.
In addition, thematic learning is also an innovation of the "Mobile Expo". Through the content of different sections, students can study on different topics according to their own needs, so as to meet the growth of different groups, so that students who have the ability to learn and who are interested in learning can get a greater improvement.
In 2021, the "Mobile World Expo" project will not only enter the territorial joint construction of schools, but also enter the five major new town schools. The school section has also achieved the coverage of the entire school section of elementary school, junior high school and high school, benefiting more than 5,000 students in the whole year. Unanimously praised by the school."Mobile World Expo" not only provides services to students, inherits the spirit of the World Expo of "understanding, communication, gathering and cooperation", and becomes a mobile red education ideological and political classroom, which inspires students' patriotism; it becomes students' understanding of the world The window has planted a dream in the hearts of the students.