The Caton Family Fun Factory is designed to achieve specific academic standards. Let’s Get to Work highlights the importance of technology and engineering. Let’s Get to Work allows children to create safety signs in a mini manufacturing company. Complete with hard hats, conveyor system, and interactive shipping map encourages children to be engaged in creating a product from start to finish. Bob and Fay Caton, 2014
Truist is open for business! The exhibit provides children with important hands-on learning opportunities focused on financial literacy. Inside this exhibit, children can role-play as the bank teller or customer and make deposits or withdrawals through the drive-up window or interactive ATM. Children have the opportunity to learn basic math skills through counting all standard forms of money – pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, ones, fives, tens, twenties, and hundreds, and make choices about saving vs. spending. Learning through practice and pretend play, the Bank teaches children to solve problems, coordinate, cooperate, and think about the difference between need and want. BB&T, 2016 Truist, 2023
The School of Exploration, Creativity and Fun offers opportunities for hands-on learning through play in an exhibit space with school-like activities so children can be prepared for school by gaining familiarity about school readiness. Children who have not started school enjoy being “Big Kids” and children who have started school get a kick out of playing “teacher.” Children have an opportunity to enjoy using kid safe iPads designed to educate through preset App exploration, build skills in math and language, games and music. The iPads have strict controls that restrict children from entering unwanted websites. Children may also play engineering games such as chain reaction, magnetic gears and they can engineer a coaster. There is a book nook, an art center and they can examine insect specimens through a magnifying glass. The Public Schools of Robeson County 2013
The Dental Exhibit is meant to encourage healthy dental habits in young children beginning at an early age and to help lessen their fear of annual trips to the dentist. Kids can show off their pearly white teeth while they explore the joys of keeping teeth healthy, happy and strong! Explore the wonders of a healthy smile and practice being a real dentist with lab coats, a dental chair and teeth x-rays. The Dental Exhibit was made possible through the contributions of 13 dentists in the county. (Dr. Dalton Brooks, Dr. Thomas Cleveland, Dr. Carey Collins, Dr. Jeff Collins, Dr. Samuel Evans, Dr. Lacey Gane, Dr. Cheryl Locklear, Dr. Edward Hickman, Dr. Douglas Jackson, Dr. Edward Jessup, Dr. Christopher Karshner, Dr. Colin Osborne III, Dr. Daniel Walters). May 18, 2015.
The Southeastern Health Youth Fitness Center includes equipment that was created solely for the use of children. The exhibit will encourage our children to lead healthy lives by showing them how much fun exercising can be. Southeastern Health, 2016
The Southeastern Health Pediatric Clinic promotes health and wellness for the children and families who visit Exploration Station. The exhibit includes many items that children will find as they visit their own pediatrician offices. The Pediatric clinic is designed to put your child in the doctor’s role. Children will be able to dress in scrubs and use tools such as thermometers, stethoscopes, and measuring tapes on their patients. The exhibit includes a wheelchair, crutches, a pediatric walker, and a cast shoe. Southeastern Health, 2016.
The Performing Arts Stage requires the use of a child’s creative imagination to improvise and think on their feet. They step into the role of their favorite characters with costumes and props. Real stage lights provide a spotlight for song and dance. The dressing room area provides mirrors and vanity lights for the actors and actresses to prepare for the big show! A puppet stage with a variety of puppets allows children to act out classical skits or compose their very own. Reaping the benefits of the stage enriches a child’s life while improving cognitive, motor, and social development. The Performing Arts Stage was created through The Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Carolina grant in 2017.
Bo’s Grocery Store is a favorite among children. The grocery store allows children to shop for food as a consumer or run the register as an employee allows children. Children learn the value of things; they act out spending money and making purchases. Children learn life skills and the process of how it all works together. The Abbot Family 2012
Brooklyn’s Farm allows children to learn the concept of Farm-to-Table. Children are able to collect eggs from our hencoop, ride a tractor, and choose seasonal fruits and vegetables from a produce stand, all the while gaining a better understanding on how food finds its way to their table. Ray and Debra Townsend, 2014.
Block Room is an exhibit where children can use able Legos, large blocks, and tool sets, to make large or small structures and maintain whatever their imaginations can create. When children are picking up little pieces around them to form a building, plane, or creature, they are bringing order out of chaos, children become engineers when they build a bridge; children build social skills, fine motor skills, and social skills. The Block Room was created with funds from “The North Carolina Grassroots Museum Grant,” 2017.
The Cox House offers children the opportunity to “play house” on a grand scale. This exhibit teaches and encourages self-sustainability while children pretend to cook dinner, wash dishes, and other “chores” that are necessary for taking care of one’s home and self. Beautifully crafted and created, this exhibit is a favorite among children and adults alike. Michelle and David Cox, Sammy and Oneita Cox, 2012
Toddle Town is the perfect learning environment for our youngest children. Toddle Town is a nature-themed exhibit that includes a treehouse, ride-on ladybug and bee, and a caterpillar tunnel. These are just a few of the exciting examples that encourage fine movement, creativity, and exploration for children under the age of two. Robeson Pediatrics, 2014.
The Pirate Ship a wonderful place for children to climb to the top of the ship and use a spyglass to see the galaxies in front of them or watch the children below. They can walk the down to the bottom of the ship and see the fish and turtles or better yet just sit on a comfortable seat and fish. Then there is always an opportunity to go on a treasure hunt. Kiwanis, 2012.
Pops the Talking Tree Pops the talking tree is our latest exhibit in honor of Councilman Leon Maynor. The tree tells eleven stories. Each story tells a different story of Lumberton’s history and its people. Children may crawl through a special space in the tree to view a family of squirrels. Pops has been provided through funding from the Leon Maynor Donor Fund. March, 2023
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