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.