| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Science inquiry and the use of the early years column to support science and engineering learning -- Assessment -- Nature of science and science process skills -- Objects in motion -- What are things made of? -- Mixing and making a change : chemical science -- Exploring our senses -- Learning about plants and animals : biological science -- Water play -- Weather -- Designing and building to solve a problem : engineering -- Technology -- Introduction to the early years column and companion blog -- What can young children do as scientists? -- The matter of melting -- Feet first -- Roll with it -- Young questioners -- Learning measurement -- Rocks tell a story -- Birds in winter -- The sun's energy -- Collards and caterpillars -- Water works -- Counting a culture of mealworms -- Observing with magnifiers -- Objects in motion -- An invertebrate garden -- Air is not nothing -- Bring on spring : planting peas -- Does Light go through it? -- Hear that? -- Adding up the rain -- Planting before winter -- Safe smelling -- Helper hats -- Building with sand -- Inquiry at play -- Developing observation skills -- Investigable questions -- Ongoing inquiry -- Sharing research results -- Measuring learning -- A sense of place -- Reading stories and making predictions -- Seeing the moon -- Circle time -- Drawing movement -- Please touch museum -- The wonders of weather -- "Life" science -- Water leaves "footprints" -- The STEM of inquiry -- Are they getting it? -- Now we're cooking -- Inviting parents to school -- The nature of science in early childhood. |
| Summary |
This book provides teachers with 40-plus classroom activities and an understanding of how to use them with young students. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Study and teaching (Early childhood) -- Activity programs.
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Science -- Study and teaching (Early childhood) -- Activity programs. |
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Science -- Study and teaching (Early childhood) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ashbrook, Peggy. Science learning in the early years. Arlington, VA : NSTA Press, National Science Teachers Association, [2016] 9781941316337 (DLC) 2016006206 |
| ISBN |
9781941316382 (PDF e-book) |
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1941316387 |
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9781941316337 (print) |
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