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Science of natural disasters, for young children
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With ten-plus inches of rain, even fenceposts sprout with fungus. An earthquake (my first ever experienced), the edge of hurricane Irene’s winds, and unending rain (over 10 inches in the last two weeks)…
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Models, and maps, and spatial understanding
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Teaching spatial awareness is part of most early childhood standards, such as the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework (Understands directionality, order, and position of objects, such as up, down,…
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How will you implement your professional development learning this year?
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Professional development strengthens teaching skills and introduces the latest research about learning. For early childhood teachers professional development can range from first aid to interactive reading to…
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My neighbors just drove off, heading towards the first day of kindergarten for their daughter. I love to see the excitement on children’s faces as they go to “the big school” for the first time. Middle school and high…
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Connecting with families over the summer
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At the end of the school year I gave each preschool student’s family (about 58 of them) a note and a self-addressed stamped envelope in the hopes that they would write to me to let me know about any explorations their…
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Find support and share resources at the Learning Center
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As I was packing up materials and readying the classrooms for summer storage I reflected back over the year and thought about the next. Developing an on-going inquiry (or overlapping inquiries because more than one…
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1st and 2nd grade students collecting and analyzing data, 7th graders too!
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Collecting and analyzing data follows observational steps in science inquiry. To get inspired about expanding your students’ science experiences, read about the data collection by first and second grader teams who are…
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Spring bird sightings bring reflection on conference sessions
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If children bring a downed and abandoned nest to school, have them return it to the same location. Spring migration brings additional bird species back to their nesting range and in numbers that children can easily…
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Family science: ideas and resources for activities
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Towards the end of the school year we often think of resources we can share with families to use over the summer. I like to describe my favorite outdoor areas to explore with young children with tips for what to take to…
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Spring, and moving on towards summer
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In my neck of the woods we are enjoying a consistently cool Spring with cherry blossoms and daffodils lasting longer than in most years. The sugar snap peas that the children planted in a large pot outside are about 7cm…
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Sharing research results of play dough comparison
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Children in my preschool love to cook, and in some ways cooking is much like science learning. We feel the ingredients, measure them, follow a procedure to (hopefully) replicate the results of others, and make…
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Should science instruction before grade 3 be eliminated to make more time in the school day for Language Arts and Math instruction? That question has energized the NSTA General Science email list in recent days. It…
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The children whom I see once-a-week in an hour-long afternoon science enrichment class show growth in their exploration of building using ramps and blocks to create pathways for balls. These materials have been…
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Graphing in early childhood classrooms
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The two comments on an earlier post on Collecting Data were about graphing in early childhood classrooms. My curiosity got the better of me so I investigated what some of the standards have to say about when it is…
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Here’s a question for you, to help me understand the way science activities and science inquiry are developed in early childhood classrooms. It relates to the topic of the March 2011 issue of Science and…
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