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Science-and-early childhood, at the NAEYC 2012 annual conference
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Did I meet you at the NAEYC 2012 conference in Atlanta this month? I met many early childhood educators who are interested in some of the same questions I find most interesting, such as “What science topics are…
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Promote and participate in early childhood science inquiry professional development
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Share Your Expertise: Be Part of the National Conversation on STEM! Don’t miss a chance to participate in the NSTA 2013 STEM Forum & Expo, in St. Louis, MO, May 15-18. The deadline to submit a proposal to share…
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Resource: Helping children rebound after a natural disaster
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NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite image of Hurricane Sandy, October 29 at 9:10am EDT, NASA GOES Project The ChildCareExchange’s daily newsletter, the ExchangeEveryDay, sent out a message about the free Teaching Strategies…
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Students at Bailey’s Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences are finding out how many different kinds of invertebrates live in their schoolyard. Using a poster showing the invertebrates that are common in a Northern…
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Destination Atlanta, GA for professional development in November 2012
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Atlanta, Georgia is the place to be this November for professional development opportunities at two conferences—the National Science Teachers Association’s area conference November 1-3, and the National Association…
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What are traditional autumn activities in your program?
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Pumpkins are beautiful and varied, and so are apples, plus they taste good. No wonder these fall crops are part of early childhood activities in so many programs. Accomplished early childhood teachers don’t just “do”…
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Sharing a few online and in print resources for teachers and families
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I’m sharing a few free online resources that I’ve recently come across. Share a resource that you use, by commenting, below. The Fred Rogers Early Learning Environment has many short videos that families and early…
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Early learning experiences build toward understanding concepts that are hard to teach
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We all have seen how children begin making sense of the world before they have any formal or informal teaching about a concept or topic…discovering through exploration that the world has textures, some things are for…
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Getting to know our students as they get to know themselves
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During the first weeks of school many preschool and kindergarten teachers have their students draw self-portraits as a way of getting to know children’s fine motor skills and developmental age in drawing, as…
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If you focus science explorations in your classroom on a yearly theme, consider water play/study. Carol M. Gross of Lehman College describes the many, many aspects to water play/study and connections to social learning…
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Choosing plants for fall school garden lessons
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What should, or can, a teacher plant during the early days of school to support children’s adjustment to school and deepen their understanding of living organisms? The answer to this question depends on many variables,…
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Mission to Mars, or, Where does this gravel come from?
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08.06.2012 Curiosity’s Surroundings, NASA/JPL-Caltech “Where does this gravel come from?” is a question that you can ask about many places in the solar system—in the dirt on the playground and in the Gale…
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Beginning the school year with goals
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Photo by her students. Early in the month of August, pre-kindergarten teacher Gail Laubenthal begins planning for the young children who will soon be entering her classroom. As a guest blogger she is sharing her…
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Summer is a time when many families visit a beach. How do you help your students build on what they learned through their summer beach experiences when they return to school? Maybe our colleagues whose schools are…
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Beginning the year with a plan to support science talk
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Calling on experienced teachers—what do you advise new teachers to do to establish routines that support discussion, especially discussion where children share their ideas and evidence for those ideas? Discussion can…
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