{"id":32,"date":"2025-03-02T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T03:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8.222.251.8\/?p=32"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:04:45","slug":"from-nanjing-to-harvard-our-ctb-journey-with-the-nanjing-museum-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/from-nanjing-to-harvard-our-ctb-journey-with-the-nanjing-museum-project\/","title":{"rendered":"From Nanjing to Harvard: Our CTB Journey with the Nanjing Museum Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When the CTB national rankings were announced, our team&#8217;s name flashing in the top 20 felt surreal, we were going to Harvard! For three months, we had lived at the Nanjing Museum, observing how children interacted with exhibits. Our breakthrough came when 8 year old LeLe defiantly flipped over a dinosaur puzzle, revealing a universal truth: kids learn best when given control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/8.222.251.8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105802-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105802-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105802-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105802-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105802-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105802-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105802-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Pre-Game Jitters? Not Our Style!<\/strong>\uff08P1\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research evolved from tracking dwell times to creating multisensory &#8220;Discovery Kits&#8221; containing touchable replicas and scent cards. The kits improved engagement by 63% in trials. Now, as we prepare our Harvard presentation, that well-worn replica celadon bowl (rubbed smooth by tiny hands) sits centerstage, proof that when history becomes play, even a Western Han golden beast can wink at curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/8.222.251.8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105753-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105753-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105753-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105753-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105753-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105753-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u56fe\u7247_20250326105753-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Teamwork Wins: How We Nailed Our CTB Presentation<\/strong>\uff08P2\uff09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the CTB national ran &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-exploration"],"views":430,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lzl-historybuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}