All Early Childhood resources

Journal Article

The Early Years: Discovering Their Sense of the World

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in a project-based lear...

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Interactive E-book Kids

Fish Out of Water

Kat is a student paleontologist who uses a video chat app to communicate with readers during her expedition to visit a paleontological site in the des...

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Are They the Same?

This e-book is based on the natural phenomenon that any group of plants or animals will demonstrate individual variation that allows scientists to dis...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Biology Life Science STEM Technology 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

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Help Me Grow

Help Me Grow is an interactive book where readers enter a forest to see how four different animals raise their young. Interactivities and questions gu...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy

Journal Article

The Early Years: Analyzing Media Representations of Animals

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue aims to engage children in analyzing and interp...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Life Science Mathematics STEM Crosscutting Concepts Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

Interactive E-book Kids

Be a Sky Sleuth

How can patterns be used to predict the positions of the Sun, Moon, and stars? The Be a Sky Sleuth e-book helps students figure out the answer to this...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Astronomy Earth & Space Science Physical Science STEM Technology 5E Assessment Crosscutting Concepts Curriculum Disciplinary Core Ideas Instructional Materials Inquiry Learning Progression Lesson Plans NGSS Pedagogy Performance Expectations Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Interdisciplinary Literacy

Journal Article

The Early Years: Creating a Possibility-Rich Classroom Environment

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue describes an activity that creates a “possibi...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Literacy

Journal Article

The Early Years: Begin With Open Exploration

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue discusses ways to encourage children to engage ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Life Science Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Pedagogy Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies

Blog Post

What Is Your Model For?

Recently, my colleagues and I had an exchange with some teachers in one of our professional development programs. One teacher said, “I think I do a ...

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Journal Article

The Early Years: Making Sense of Their World

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this issue students document the apparent movement of t...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Earth & Space Science Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Inquiry NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning