Science in the Early Years
The stories, principles, and strategies presented in these articles cover family involvement approaches from infancy through the primary years. Some are reminders of what it takes to build and maintain essential partnerships between families and teachers; others offer creative ideas for expanding good practice.
NAEYC members can read this entire issue of Young Children online in the Members Only area.
| 10 | Science in the Air/Sherrie Bosse, Gera Jacobs, and Tara Lynn Anderson |
| 16 | Introduction |
| 18 | Toddlers' Scientific Explorations: Encounters with Insects/Lauren Foster Shaffer, Ellen Hall, and Mary Lynch |
| 24 | Using Children's Books to Teach Inquiry Skills/Mesut Saçkes, and Kathy Cabe Trundle, and Lucia M. Flevares |
| 32 | Reading, Writing, and Conducting Inquiry about Science in Kindergarten/Helen Patrick, Panayota Mantzicopoulos, and Ala Samarapungavan |
| 39 | Science Learning at Home: Involving Families/Elizabeth Outlaw Crawford, Emily T. Heaton, Karen Heslop, and Kassandra Kixmiller |
| 42 | Seeds inthe Window, Soil in the Sensory Table: Science Education through Gardening and Nature-Based Play/Alyse C. Hachey and Deanna L. Butler |
| 49 | Engage, Investigate, and Report: Enhancing the Curriculum with Scientific Inquiry/Sally Blake |
| 54 | Let's Find Out! Preschoolers as Scientific Explorers/Kimberly Brenneman |
| 62 | Of Water Troughs and the Sun: Developing Inquiry through Analogy/Kay W. Cowan and Sandra Cipriani |
| 68 | Resources for Science in the Early Years |
| 72 | The Reading Chair/Isabel Baker and Miriam Baker Schiffer |
| 74 | Learning by Leaps and Bounds. Make a Little Music/Rae Pica |
| 76 | Of Primary Interest. Using Read-Alouds with Critical Literacy Literature in K—3 Classrooms/Wendy B. Meller, Danielle Richardson, and J. Amos Hatch |
| 92 | Whiteboards and Web Sites: Digital Tools for the Early Childhood Curriculum/Peggy Lisenbee |
| 97 | Family Ties. Helping All Families Participate in School Life/Yoo-Seon Bang |
Additional Features
| 6 | From Our President. NAEYC and the World of Volunteers/Sue Russell |
| 79 | 2010 NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo |
| 80 | Advocates in Action. Research Studies and Task Force Reports Can Help You Advocate for High-Quality Early Childhood Education |
| 84 | NAEYC Accreditation. NAEYC Launches Criteria Review Process for Accreditation of Programs for Young Children |
| 87 | NAEYC National Institute for Early Chilhood Professional Development |
| 88 | Professional Development. NAEYC Revises Standards for Early Childhood Progessional Preparation Programs/Alison Lutton and Saba Ahmed |
| 90 | Observations and Reflections/Mark Ginsberg |
| 96 | NAEYC Business |
| 99 | Index of Advertisers |
| 100 | New Books/Gail Perry |
| 101 | NAEYC Annual Report |
