National Academy of Sciences

Exploratorium

The Teaching Tank

Mother Goose Asks Why?

Available through our ECC Resource Lending Library

• Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive s Come Alive

Connecting Your Practice and Curriculum to State Guidelines

• Family - Friendly Communication for Early Childhood Programs

Excellent samples and templates to use for newsletters and parent communications!  Deborah Diffily and Kathy Morrison, editors. (Available in the ECC Lending Library)

• Spotlight on Young Children and Science

"A collection of engaging and thoughtful articles from Young Children and other NAEYC resources"

• 365 Simple Science Experiements
• Nature for Fun Projects
• Nature Crafts for Kids
• Learn and Play the Recyle Way

Other recommended reading

• Worms, Shadows and Whirlpools: Science in the Early Childhood Classroom
• Mudpies to Magnets

NAEYC Early Years are Learning Years: Starting Children on Science

NAEYC's Beyond the Journal

Teaching and Learning about Science. The resources included in this collection accompany "Science in the Preschool Classroom: Capitalizing on Children's Fascination with the Everyday World to Foster Language and Literacy Development," an article published in Young Children. Visitors will find the article along with curriculum samples and a book list.

Helping Children Ask Good Questions

Helping children to ask good questions is a matter of helping children to think about their thinking. We should help children be curious about their own understanding of events.  But how do we help children look at their own thinking, since thinking is such a private affair?

Simple Science

You don’t need test tubes and chemicals to do great science projects with children.You can find a lot of materials for science right in your home or backyard. Children will love trying some of these science projects.