Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon,

Big science for growing minds : constructivist classrooms for young thinkers / Jacqueline Grennon Brooks ; foreword by Doris Pronin Fromberg. - xi, 179 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Early childhood education series . - Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press). .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Young scientists with growing ideas -- A constructivist view of learning -- Learning to care and caring to learn -- Science as disciplined wonder -- Science learning within family, community, and nature -- Science of learning -- Liberty and science for all -- Negotiating the science curriculum -- Unifying science concepts -- Unifying concepts : the physical environment -- Unifying concepts : the living environment -- Science in the shopping cart : a chemistry unit -- Water, soil, sand, and salt : an earth science unit -- Putting it all together.

0807751952 9780807751954

2011006670


Science--Study and teaching (Early childhood)

LB1139.5.S35 / B76 2011

372.35044