Planet Word

a CILC Content Provider

Planet Word is the only museum in the country dedicated to renewing and inspiring a love of words and language. Located in the historic Franklin School on the corner of 13th and K Streets in downtown D.C., Planet Word opened in 2020 as a new kind of interactive and self-guided museum. Using the museum’s state-of-the-art technology, visitors determine their experience through their own words and choices. Planet Word is a bold and imaginative response to the life-long importance of literacy and to the challenge of growing a love of language.

Programs by Planet Word

Can You Trust It?

Explore facts and opinions, types of sources, and motive in both news and social media. Then, do a fact-checking exercise to practice 4 key questions when determining what is trustworthy. Developed in partnership with News Literacy Project.

GO BANANAS FOR IDIOMS!

Unleash the creative and comic potential of idioms and learn about the difference between literal and nonliteral meanings. The program features a matching game, an opportunity to create and share an idiom drawing, and heaps of idiom-based humor!

I'm Sold!

Guide your students through several advertising copywriting techniques that make ads memorable and persuasive. The program will finish with students writing their own copy, while discussion centers the idea of being a savvy consumer.

Sounds Like Poetry!

Delight in sprightly “i”s and “e”s or wallow in long, mournful “o”s as we explore how poets play with the sounds of words to evoke specific feelings and tones in their work. Students will also practice those techniques in a short writing activity.

These Words Are Spoken

In this SEL, DEAI focused program, students will play a dialect game, analyze the spoken word poetry piece “Broken English” by Jamila Lyiscott, and affirm their language identity. Identity, history, tradition, and culture all show up in the ways...

Words Matter

The way we tell our own story impacts everyone around us. Using videos included in the Words Matter gallery, students analyze a personal narrative to understand storytelling techniques, all while connecting to broader themes and social issues...

Type of Organization

Arts/Cultural/Museum

Contact

Juliet Brown education@planetwordmuseum.org
925 13th St NW
Washington DC 20005
202-918-6142
United States

https://planetwordmuseum.org/

Primary Disciplines

The programs of Planet Word cover:

Culture
Language Arts/English
Literacy
Reading
Social and Emotional Learning( SEL)
Writing