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The Early Years: Composting With Children
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue introduces students to the concept of decomposition and the process of composting.
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The Early Years: Encouraging Curiosity
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month's column describes an activity that will connect families to children’s learning at school by posing questions for…
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The Early Years: Classroom Memories
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue provides an activity to encourage students to reflect on their actions and thought processes.
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The Early Years: Looking at Landscapes
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month’s issue students study landscape surfaces to recognize changes due to human impacts or natural phenomena.
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The Early Years: Exploring Biodiversity
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. The objective in this month’s issue is to introduce children to the diversity of plant life in a given area through a plant…
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The Early Years: Mixing Materials
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses how students can observe the properties of matter and document changes as materials are mixed.
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The Early Years: Inquiry at Play
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Play and science inquiry are essential parts of early childhood programs. Imaginative play, unscripted yet guided by children’s own rules, allows students to use their imagination and develop self-regulation, symbolic…
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Kids love animals, especially learning about them. Investigating the differences among an "animal part"--such as feet--of various species can be an intriguing way to help students develop classification skills and…
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The Early Years: Investigable Questions
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Teachers may not need to teach children to ask questions, just develop that safe place where questions can be voiced, observe children to see the questions in their actions, and develop a culture that appreciates and…
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The Early Years: Science Tickets
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Teachers can spark interest in a science topic by using “science tickets”—special objects offered to children as a way to transition to the science room or into a small group to do a science activity. Objects ranging…
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The Early Years: Safe Smelling
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Using the sense of smell, animals find food or a mate and detect the presence of predators; their survival depends on this. In a discussion on using our sense of smell to keep use safe, some children may relate…
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The Early Years: Ongoing Inquiry
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An in-depth science inquiry is an ongoing investigation in which children are introduced to materials through hands-on experiences and, with teacher guidance, begin to investigate a question that they can answer through…
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The Early Years: Exploring Systems
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue describes a lesson that connects across several early childhood standards, including engineering design.
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Scope on the Skies: A Year in Time
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the history of the development of various calendars.
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The Early Years: A Progression of Learning
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue offers an activity in which children explore the properties of ceramic clay, learn related vocabulary, and…
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