Exploring Water with Young Children
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2005-05-23
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1605543160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the science behind exploring and understanding water with young children.
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Explore Water!
Author: Anita Yasuda
Publisher: Nomad Press
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1936749890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrip—Drop—Splash! Water is essential to all forms of life. Explore Water! 25 Great Projects, Activities, Experiments, captures a child’s imagination with an intriguing look at the world of water. Combining hands-on activities with history and science, kids will have fun learning about the water cycle, water resources, drinking water and sanitation, water pollution and conservation, water use, water folklore and festivals, and the latest in water technology. Entertaining illustrations and fascinating sidebars illuminate the topic and bring it to life, while Words to Know highlighted and defined within the text reinforce new vocabulary. Projects include a nilometer, a rain harvester made out of plastic containers, a transpiration experiment, and a mini water wheel. Auxiliary materials include a glossary, and a list of current reference works, websites, museums, and science centers.
Exploring Water with Young Children, Trainer's Guide
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2005-05-23
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1605543241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe trainer’s guide serves as an indispensable handbook for trainers and administrators interested in introducing staff to the Exploring Water with Young Children curriculum—from planning to implementation. From exploring sinking and floating to using books to extend science learning, seven basic and eight advanced workshops develop staff members’ understanding of science and inquiry teaching skills. The guide also includes strategies for supporting teachers over time through mentoring and guided discussions, as well as an extensive resource list.
Sand and Water Play
Author: Sherrie West
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780876592472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSAND AND WATER PLAY: SIMPLE, CREATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.
Spotlight on Young Children
Author: Holly Bohart
Publisher: Spotlight on Young Children
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9781938113147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The articles in this collection emphasize the importance of play--from infancy through the primary grades, how to support and scaffold children's play, and how to connect play to learning. Also included is a professional development guide with questions and activities"---Publisher's Web site.
Explore Simple Machines!
Author: Anita Yasuda
Publisher: Nomad Press
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1619301288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom zippers to the Pyramids, rolling pins to catapults, we are surrounded by simple machines. This book will amaze kids with the ingenuity they already possess and inspire them to look differently at the objects they use everyday. Explore Simple Machines! With 25 Great Projects introduces kids to the concept of “mechanical advantage,” and harnesses kid-power by inviting them to build machines of their own design. It opens their eyes to the diversity of machines in their lives, and sparks the imagination with challenge, humor, and achievable projects. Explore Simple Machines! dedicates a chapter to each of the six simple machines that were identified centuries ago: levers, inclined planes, pulleys, screws, wedges, and wheels & axles. Kids will develop analytical skills as they figure out where force is applied and what kind of work it generates.
Building Structures with Young Children--Trainer's Guide
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2004-10-13
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1605543225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Exploring Water with Young Children
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher:
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781929610860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at science in a new way, Exploring Water with Young Children focuses children's explorations to help deepen their understanding of water and its properties-including concepts related to water's flow, appearance and effect on objects. The third unit in the Young Scientist Series, this field-tested curriculum supports the early development of important science inquiry skills such as questioning, investigating, discussing and formulating ideas and theories. Karen Worth is a graduate-level instructor in the early childhood education department at Wheelock College. Ingrid Chalufour has designed and conducted training programs for a variety of early childhood staff for more than 35 years. Both authors live in Newton, Massachusetts.
Experiencing Nature with Young Children
Author: Alice Sterling Honig
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781938113079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConnecting Children to the Wonder of Nature There's a whole world outdoors waiting to embrace young children--with their curiosity, imagination, and enthusiasm--and to impart its treasures. Experiencing Nature With Young Children invites you to explore this world with children from birth to age 8 in ways that will - Awaken their enjoyment and appreciation of nature - Nurture their emotional development - Enhance their cognitive growth - Spark their creativity - Help them discover how we all--people, animals, plants--are connected - Engage families and communities in preserving nature Along the way, children will learn to love nature and its inhabitants. And in learning to love, they will learn to care--helping to ensure that our natural environment will be well looked-after by the next generation. Part ballad to nature, part irresistible invitation to teachers, this book will awaken and renew your own joy in nature--and move you to experience it with young children.
All the Water in the World
Author: George Ella Lyon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-03-22
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1442432950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll the water in the world is all the water in the world. We are all connected by water, and this message is beautifully, lyrically delivered from poet-musician-author George Ella Lyon. Where does water come from? Where does water go? Find out in this exploration of oceans and waterways that highlights an important reality: Our water supply is limited, and it is up to us to protect it. Dynamic, fluid art paired with pitch-perfect verse makes for a wise and remarkable read-aloud that will resonate with any audience.On sale: 03.22.11
