Science and Children is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioners' journal for grade PreK–5 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science supervisors and leaders. Science and Children is published six times a year and is available in print and as an e-journal. Science and Children subscribers are members of the National Science Teaching Association who select it as their preferred journal. We hope you will consider writing a manuscript for Science and Children to interest our readers and enhance preschool and elementary science teaching. NSTA offers no remuneration for published articles.

We seek manuscripts that detail innovative, classroom-tested preschool and elementary school science activities and strategies that demonstrate current research regarding the teaching and learning of science as in the Framework for K–12 Science Education.

Editor Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn

Managing Editor Valynda Mayes

Associate Editor Beth Pesnell

Chief of Publications and Digital Products Cathy Iammartino

NSTA OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President: Dr. Alicia Conerly, Marion County School District, Mississippi

Retiring President: Julie A. Luft, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

President Elect: Dr. Beverly DeVore-Wedding, Nebraska Indian Community College

REVIEW PANEL

Ginger Akason, Brookview Elementary School, West Des Moines, IA

Jennifer Bateman, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Roberta Batorsky, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Jodi Beasley, Leander, TX

Anna Maria Behuniak, Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, Las Vegas, NV

Patty Betteley, Perry Middle School, Perry, OH

Devarati Bhattacharya, Youth Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

G. Michael Bowen, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Judy Boyle, Divide School District #4, Whitehall, MT

Sandra Bradshaw, Coordinator of Elementary Curriculum, Anderson School District 5, Anderson, SC

Carol Ann Brennan, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Crystal Brown, Hunter Elementary, Brownstown Charter Township, MI

Patrick Brown, Fort Zumwalt School District, O’Fallon, MO

Martha Canipe, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

Dante Cisterna, ETS, Princeton, NJ

Susan J. Cooper, Florida Gulf Coast University (retired), Fort Myers, FL

Connie Crittenden, retired classroom teacher, East Lansing, MI

Elizabeth Crowder, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Diego Cruz, THINKey, Santiago, Chile

Michelle Daml, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Fairbanks, AK

Steph Dean, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Elizabeth Edmondson, Richmond, VA

Bonnie C. Embry, Rosa Parks Elementary School, Lexington, KY

Fred Estes, The Nueva School, San Francisco, CA

Jennifer Fine, Wake County Public School System, Cary, NC

Jenny Sue Flannagan, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA

Kevin Fleming, Area Cooperative Educational Services, Hamden, CT

Jessica Fries-Gaither, Hilliard, OH

Janet Gannon, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME

Stacy George, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

Tammy Gilmer, retired fifth-grade teacher, Orofino, ID

Nicole Glen, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA

Rhoda Goldberg, Spring Branch ISD, Houston, TX

Timothy A. Goodale, Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC

Zachary Grimes, Crowley’s Ridge College, Paragould, AR

Juliette Guarino Berg, Town School, New York, NY

Carla Gull, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

Amanda Gunning, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY

Alexandria Hansen, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Walter Harris, Wake County Public School System, Cary, NC

Arlene I. Hayman, Morrow Elementary School, Henderson, NV

Christine Hebert, Fairlawn Elementary School, Norfolk, VA

Terri Hebert, Indiana University, South Bend, South Bend, IN

Jake Henin, The Dalton School, New York, NY

Valentina Constanza Hernandez, Santiago, Región Metropolitana, Chile

Missy Holzer, Chatham High School, Somerset, NJ

Chris Hwande, School District of Clayton, Clayton, MO

Jenny Ingber, Chess in Schools, New York, NY

Austin Jenkins, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Sami Kahn, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Julie Kallio, Breck School, Minneapolis, MN

Dieuwertje Kast, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Lilly Keefe-Powers, The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, MN

Katheryn B. Kennedy, The Peck School, Morristown, NJ

Rhonda Kerr, Knoxville Adaptive Education Center, Knoxville, TN

Denise Koontz, Keller, TX

Tasha Kirby, Anacortes Middle School, Anacortes, WA

Rebecca Krall, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Carrie Launius, Lindbergh School District, St. Louis, MO

Wendi Laurence, Create-osity, Park City, UT

William Lindquist, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN

Shannon Lorenzo-Rivero, Our Lady of Perpetual Hope, Scottsdale, AZ

Kimberly Lott, Utah State University, Logan, UT

John E. Lutz, Cortland City School District, Cortland, NY

Paula Magee, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN

Matthew Maurer, Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA

Megan McCall, Bayside Academy, Daphne, AL

James McDonald, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

Becky McDowell, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Sioux Falls, SD

Patricia McGaffigan, Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, MA

Patricia Bishop McKean, Ossining, NY

Anica Miller-Rushing, Associated Universities, Inc., Vienna, VA

Krishna Millsapp, De la Salle Institute, Chicago, IL

Kori Milroy, Skinner West School, Chicago,

Christine Moskalik, NSTA

LaMoine Motz, Oakland County Schools, White Lake, MI

Maureen Murphy-Foelkl, Heritage School, Salem, OR

Sylvia Murray, Destin, FL

Bailey Nafziger, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA

Simone Nance, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN

Karen Nesbit, Franklin Public Schools, Franklin, WI

Jessica Nickelsen, Cradle of Forestry Interpretive Association/USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

Debra Novak, AFRL NM STEM Academy, Albuquerque, NM

Cecilia A. Owens, Fay School, Southborough, MA

Katherine Owens, Bethesda, MD

Tiffany Pace, South Charleston, WV

Karen Parrino, North Live Oak Elementary, Denham Springs, LA

Holly Plank, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Beth Pesnell, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Julie Petcu, Nashville, TN

Holly Priestley, Levittown, PA

Kathy Renfrew, Vermont Department of Education, Montpelier, VT

Laura Robertson, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

Kirk Robbins, Western Washington University, Bonney Lake, WA

Julie Robinson, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

Nancy Rosenbaum, Florida State University Schools, Tallahassee, FL

Rob Rouse, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AU

Stacey Rudolph, Full STEAM Ahead, LLC, Alexandria, VA

Mary Elizabeth Sammis, Prince of Peace Catholic School, Birmingham, AL

Catherine Marie Scott, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC

Michelle Scribner-MacLean, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA

Mina Sedaghatjou, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

Jay Garvey Shah,  ICS Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Faith Shiver, W. Fred Scott Sr. Elementary, Thomasville, GA

Nikita Singh Luther, IIE Varsity, Johannesburg, South Africa

Melissa Sleeper, Indian River County Schools, Vero Beach, FL

Laura Smith, retired 4th-8th grade science teacher, Little River, SC

Sandy Spaulding, White Rock Elementary, Rancho Cordova, CA

Tracy Staley, Pinellas County Schools, Largo, Florida

Maia Starcevic, Columbus Elementary School, New Rochelle, NY

Emily Starr, StarrMatica, Clinton, IA

Mary Starr, Michigan Math and Science Leadership Network, Plymouth, MI

Elma Strong, Alice Drive Middle School, Sumter, SC

Karthigeyan Subramaniam, University of North Texas, TX

Sheila Sullivan, Paisley, OR

Kimberly Kode Sutton, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Jacksonville, NC

Ginny Switt, Oak Hall School, Gainesville, FL

Christine Thompson, Girls Who Code, DC

Jennifer Thompson, Harborview Elementary School, Juneau, AK

William Thornburgh, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

Anny Vanegas, Columbus Elementary School, New Rochelle, NY

Matthew Vick, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI.

Stephanie Wendt, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN

Chelsea Whitesell, Kings Springs Elementary School, Smyrna, GA

Jesse Wilcox, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Vicki Willet, Licking Heights West Elementary, Blacklick, OH

Terry Wilson, CREC Glastonbury-East Hartford Magnet School, Glastonbury, CT

Skyler Wiseman, Washington University Institute for School Partnership, St. Louis, MO

Heather Wollrich, Bear Valley Elementary, Anchorage, AK

Karen Woodruff, Kean University, Union, NJ