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The Early Years: Looking at Landscapes

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The Early Years: Looking at Landscapes

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....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Earth & Space Science Environmental Science

Editor's Note: Early Childhood Engagement in Science

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Editor's Note: Early Childhood Engagement in Science

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers STEM Lesson Plans

The Early Years: Integrating Digital Tools

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The Early Years: Integrating Digital Tools

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue talks about how digital media and robotics fit into the early childhood curriculum....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Technology Teaching Strategies

Engineering Encounters: Optimizing Your K–5 Engineering Design Challenge

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Engineering Encounters: Optimizing Your K–5 Engineering Design Challenge

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses the optimizations that will serve to inform readers of seven recommendations for optimizing an engineering lesson....

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The Early Years: Getting Deep With Documentation

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The Early Years: Getting Deep With Documentation

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this kindergarten practice, storytelling leads to drawing, adding more detail, and then writing as literacy skills are developed....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Science and Engineering Practices Literacy

Engineering Encounters: An Engineering Design Process for Early Childhood

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Engineering Encounters: An Engineering Design Process for Early Childhood

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about trying (again) to engineer an egg package....

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Next Time You See a Cloud

Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science b...

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Next Time You See a Cloud (Library binding)

Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science b...

Early Childhood Elementary Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Life Science Multilingual Learners Instructional Materials Inquiry NGSS Phenomena Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Interdisciplinary Literacy New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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Look and See: I Wonder Why

This lively book’s title makes the perfect motto for young scientists: Look and see! With the help of charming text and bright pictures, you learn just how much you can use your sense of sight. Toys and tools, birds and bugs, flowers and fish, and ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Instructional Materials

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Fragrant as a Flower: I Wonder Why

Follow your nose! This book invites you to learn what your sense of smell can teach you as you amble around town. Go along as a little boy listens to his dad’s tale about taking in the deliciousness of a pastry shop, the woodsy smells of a lumberya...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Life Science Instructional Materials

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Quiet as a Butterfly: I Wonder Why

“One day I listened. I listened to all the sounds I heard. I listened and I wondered.” From a clock’s ticks in the morning to a father’s snores at night, sounds are everywhere. That’s what an attentive boy discovers as he listens his way...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Instructional Materials

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