Author: Karen Worth Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books ISBN: 9780325005737 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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Based on the growing understanding that even the littlest learners are powerful thinkers and theory makers, this book identifies important science inquiry skills and concepts appropriate for the very young.
Author: Daniel R. Meier Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136154515 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
Nature Education with Young Children is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book’s guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for effective and transformative nature education: • The power and value of equity and access to nature education • Effective teaching encompasses child development domains and integrates ECE curriculum • Children learn best through inquiry-based and child-centered teaching • Powerful teaching is founded upon teacher inquiry and reflection. Implementing nature study is one critical way that educators can integrate more science learning across the ECE curriculum and do so in an active, discovery-based manner. Nature Education with Young Children strives for an American version of what the Reggio Emilia educators do so well: creating a seamless integration of science concepts into the daily intellectual investigations that occur in classrooms everywhere.
Author: Jean Durgin Harlan Publisher: Merrill Publishing Company ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 244
Book Description
Updated to reflect the National Science Education Standards, this leading text, takes a hands-on approach to science learning by providing a solid theoretical foundation and many practical activities. A truly unique quality of the text is the science-concept-based units that offer teachers a way to integrate science knowledge and processes into the whole curriculum (including art, math, music, creative movement, creative thinking, community, and family relations).
Author: Ingrid Chalufour Publisher: Redleaf Press ISBN: 1605543225 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 229
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A companion to the curriculum, this trainer’s guide serves as an indispensable handbook for trainers and administrators interested in introducing staff to the Building Structures with Young Children curriculum—from planning to implementation. Special sections outline the curriculum and introduce scientific reasoning to adults, and eight workshops detail the complete curriculum for staff members. The guide also includes strategies for supporting teachers over time through mentoring and guided discussions.
Author: Patty Selly Publisher: Redleaf Press ISBN: 1605541192 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 271
Book Description
This resource teaches children about sustainability and environmentalism with green-oriented lesson plans, art activities, literature connections, and classroom projects.
Author: Julie Powers Publisher: Redleaf Press ISBN: 160554597X Category : Education Languages : en Pages :
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Nature-Based Learning for Every Preschool Setting is designed to provide ideas for all early childhood educators ranging from novice nature educators to highly experienced nature educators in a wide range of ecosystems, including forests, cities, prairies, coastal, and deserts. It includes background information on a range of nature topics, reproducible parent newsletters, sample play-based lesson plans, guidance and health and safety issues related to nature activities, ideas for free/inexpensive equipment and materials and for big ticket items, ideas for family involvement, and connections to early childhood learning standards. Chapters are divided by nature topic so readers can dip in right away where they want to start exploring.
Author: Marilyn Fleer Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107548705 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 329
Book Description
Designed to prepare future educators for practice, Science for Children challenges students and offers practical classroom-based strategies for their science teaching careers. It presents a wealth of science content across the birth-to-12-years continuum, demonstrating how science can come alive in the classroom.
Author: Sydney L. Schwartz Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313067945 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
Children learn mathematics most effectively in contexts that are meaningful to them. Realizing the potential of these contexts for fostering young children's mathematical learning while nurturing and challenging them, requires knowledge of mathematics as well as of child development. Avoiding the debates surrounding hands-on learning vs. direct instruction, the author focuses on the value of different contexts for learning, and illustrates ways to genuinely engage children as active learners. The work is rich with examples of children's interactions with each other and with adults as they utilize and extend their understanding of mathematics. Examples and guidelines for developing lessons and activities will be useful to educators and parents. Chapters explore how we underestimate young children's mathematical capabilities; how appropriate sequencing of learning and building on prior knowledge will enhance understanding; what teachers, including parent-teachers, need to know; and high-stakes testing. This is a work that brings together the connections between knowing the basics and constructing knowledge in accessible and practical ways.
Author: Doris Pronin Fromberg Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136638997 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 426
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Grounded in theory and research, The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum provides an activity-based and classroom-proven curriculum for educators to consider as they plan and interact with pre-k and kindergarten children. Allowing young children the opportunities to become independent, caring, critical thinkers who feel comfortable asking questions and exploring possible solutions, the Dynamic Themes Curriculum offers children the skills they need for responsible citizenship and academic progress. This book describes a culturally-sensitive pre-k and kindergarten curriculum in the context of literacy, technology, mathematics, social studies, science, the arts, and play, and also discusses: How to use the seven integrated conditions for learning to meet and exceed content learning standards How to organize for differentiated instruction and to integrate multiple forms of assessment How to teach literacy tools and skills in fresh ways How to work with families, colleagues, and community Building off of author Doris Fromberg’s groundbreaking earlier work, The All-Day Kindergarten and Pre-K Curriculum presents a practical curriculum centering on how young children develop meanings. This is a fantastic resource for pre-and in-service early childhood teachers, administrators, and scholars.
Author: Anne Michelle Burke Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited ISBN: 1551388065 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
Embrace play to spark learning with practical examples, activities, and resources for using play in the classroom to build skills in literacy, math, science, technology, and more.
Author: Karen Worth
Author: Daniel R. Meier
Author: Jean Durgin Harlan
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Author: Patty Selly
Author: Julie Powers
Author: Marilyn Fleer
Author: Sydney L. Schwartz
Author: Doris Pronin Fromberg
Author: Anne Michelle Burke