Angela Eckhoff

Creative Investigations in Early Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Young children are born scientists with an innate desire to analyze and investigate the world around them. Expand their learning and encourage their inquisitive nature as you explore the physical, life, and earth sciences together! Creative Investigations in Early Science will help you to guide preschoolers' learning as they study seasonal transitions, explore basic chemical changes, and learn about matter and physical properties. Children will develop an early love for the sciences as you help them research, question, experiment, analyze, and discover through open-ended explorations. You'll feed their curiosity while enhancing their STEM skills! Teachers and parents alike will learn practical and approachable ways to intentionally foster their young scientists' hands-on, minds-on explorations in the following areas: * Matter and physical properties * Physical and chemical changes * Conservation and sustainability * Earth and space systems Guide your young STEM learners as they explore both on their own and collaboratively to grow their knowledge about the world around them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gryphon House
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780876598047
• ISBN-10: 0876598041
• Artikelnr.: 52640106

Autorenporträt

Angela Eckhoff, PhD, is an associate professor of Teaching and Learning-Early Childhood Education and director of the Virginia Early Childhood Policy Center at Old Dominion University. She holds a dual PhD from the University of Colorado-Boulder in educational psychology and cognitive science. She is a coeditor of the Full STEAM Ahead column for Teaching Young Children from NAEYC. Dr. Eckhoff studies the role of creativity in child development and learning, arts-based research and pedagogical practices, and early STEAM learning in both classroom and museum settings.