Explore, inquire, investigate, and learn! The November 2009 issue of Young Children focuses on science in the early years and how adults can bring science into their programs, classrooms, or homes. Articles include "Toddlers' Scientific Explorations: Encounters with Insects" and "Engage, Investigate, and Report: Enhancing the Curriculum with Scientific Inquiry." Also included in this issue are the articles "Whiteboards and Web Sites: Digital Tools for the Early Childhood Curriculum" and "Family Ties: Helping All Families Participate in School Life."

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How can children be encouraged to make a lasting connection to nature? This program profiles the efforts of educators and parents to introduce children to the natural world and to involve them—through outdoor play, class activities, and their own creative work—in a process of outdoor discovery. Beyond the immediate benefits to child development that come with exploration and improvisational learning, the program documents how meaningful time spent outdoors can cultivate in children a permanent caring for nature—a crucial ethic of environmental responsibility.

This documentary is one of four in The Learning Child Series, produced by Jonathan Diamond Associates, Inc. in association with the Child Development Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. 

Describes and discusses learning experiences that promote early mathematics development for children aged three to five across five content areas: number and operations, geometry, algebra, measurement, and data analysis. A continuing story threads through the book, drawing on the power of storytelling as an effective medium to attach meaning to mathematics. Teachers can use this book to help themselves teach mathematics, learn mathematics, and most important, "listen to children think!" Copublished with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

The cluster theme for the May 2009 issue is “Mathematics in the Early Years.” Articles in this issue include “Dolls, Blocks, and Puzzles: Playing with Mathematical Understandings” and “Responsive Reading: Caring for Chicken Little.”

Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips. The December 2008 issue features articles on friendship, preschool inclusion, developmentally appropriate practice, and math games.

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Young children need hands-on experiences to construct concepts about physical science. Teachers in this video provide a variety of physical science activities that meet science standards and extend those activities to promote higher level thinking. Children’s levels of scientific thinking and the scientific process as it relates to developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum are highlighted. You will also see how science can be integrated throughout the classroom.

The accompanying PowerPoint CD guides viewers through theoretical concepts introduced in the DVD, highlights other developmentally appropriate science activities, and shows how to create materials featured in the video through step-by-step pictures and descriptions.

From Arlitt Instructional Media in association with Purdy Productions. 75 min.

Also available:

Math: #8019

Language Arts: #8023

Social Studies: #8025

A day in a preschool classroom can be hectic, and with so many learning goals to be met, it’s no surprise that teachers sometimes wonder how they will get it all done. This accessible book by Judith Schickedanz shows teachers how to maximize the scope and power of their instruction through integration—across content domains and across learning contexts. With a focus on language, literacy, and mathematics, Schickedanz introduces strategies that will bolster instruction in all subjects. Engaging vignettes demonstrate effective integration throughout the schedule, including during story time, center time, and large and small group sessions. She writes that integration can “help us better manage our time and make instruction more powerful—and learning more meaningful—for children.” This wonderful book shows you how to do just that. Past Comprehensive Member Benefit.

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Reading is about more than letters and sounds. Successful readers must draw upon a great deal of knowledge and vocabulary to make sense of that they read. This text presents five essential early literacy practices—creating a supportive environment; shared book reading; songs, rhymes, and word play; developmental writing; and play—providing the tools to link literacy to content knowledge in math, science, social studies, and art. From Scholastic.

Enhance your curriculum with these popular collections drawn from special theme issues of Young Children. Compiled by series editor Derry Koralek, these volumes are perfect as readings for college classes or in-service workshops. Each book includes resource lists and carefully designed questions and activities to aid in reflecting on issues of practice.

The Spotlight Curriculum Set includes volumes on Creative Arts (#286), Language (#283), Math (#282), Science (#281), and Social Studies (#287).

Learn to guide, expand, and assess children’s block play with nationally field tested curriculum that meets national standards. Block play is an important part of exploring physical properties such as gravity and balance as well as theories of structure like tension and compression. Real-life examples bring to life this exciting realm of science learning. Part of the Young Scientist Series and copublished with Redleaf Press.