All Early Childhood resources
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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
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....
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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....
NSTA Kids
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...
NSTA Kids
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...
NSTA Kids
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 ...
NSTA Kids
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...
NSTA Kids
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...
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The Early Years: Navigating Natural Disasters
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue has students attempting to contain moving water and experience and use its force....