1.5-Hour webinar that took place on October 16, 2019.
1.5-Hr webinar that took place on February 1, 2018.
New to engineering? What’s the connection to science? Just how do young children use the practices of science and engineering to answer questions and solve problems? This engineering and science webinar will feature work and play with balls, ramps, blocks, and other materials familiar to early childhood educators. Learn how you can bring engineering and physical science into your classroom and connect the experiences to the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards.
Suggests projects and activities designed to teach children about observation, ecology, and nature.
Children will gain mastery of the basic science process skills--observation, inference, and prediction--while exploring the first environment they encounter--their very own bodies.
Develop the natural scientist in every child with 260 hands-on science activities and ideas. Build science skills such as classification, measurement, time and space relationships, prediction, inference and numbers.
224 hands-on science experiments and ideas with step-by-step instructions delight and amaze children as they experience nature, the human body, electricity, floating and sinking, and more.
Children learn best through hands-on exploration, observation, and discovery. With more than 100 activities, The Preschool Scientist gives children the opportunity to actively engage, experiment, create, and discover the exciting world of science.
With more than 125 activities, Science Adventures will open up an amazing world of exploration and discovery through nature activities in urban, suburban, or rural settings.
Problem Solving: Engineering Experiences in Early Childhood
Tip sheet - We can’t see gravity, but it affects us every day. Preschool children can find out how gravity works through simple playground activities. (See Illinois Early Learning and Development Benchmarks 11.A.ECa, 11.A.ECc, 11.A.ECd, 11.A.ECg, 12.C.ECa, and 12.D.ECb.)