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November 2009 - Vol. 64, No. 6

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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

 

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