Nature education with young children : integrating inquiry and practice / editors Daniel R. Meier and Stephanie Sisk-Hilton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meier, Daniel R., editor.

Sisk-Hilton, Stephanie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature study.

Education, Preschool.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

Nature-Education with Young Children is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book's guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for effective and transformative nature education: The power and value of equity and access to nature education, Effective teaching encompasses child development domains and integrates ECE curriculum, Children learn best through inquiry-based and child-centered teaching, Powerful teaching is rounded upon teacher inquiry and reflection. Implementing nature study is one critical way that educators can integrate more science learning across the ECE curriculum and do so in an active, discovery-based manner. Nature Education with Young Children strives for an American version of what the Reggio Emilia educators do so well: creating a seamless integration of science concepts into the daily intellectual investigations that occur in classrooms everywhere. Book jacket.

Contents:

Science, nature, and inquiry-based learning in early childhood / Stephanie Sisk-Hilton

Nature education and teacher inquiry / Daniel Meier

Babies and nature, the act of noticing in infancy / Camille T. Dungy

Promoting nature study for toddlers / Mabel Young

Overcoming our fears, embarking on a nature journey / Gita Jayewardene

Naturally speaking, parents, children, teachers in dialogue with nature / Darcy Campbell and Shawna Thompson

Preschool children explore the forest , the power of wild places in childhood / Anna Golden

Putting the forest on the map, using documentation to further natural inquiry / Marty Gravett

Nature education and the project approach / Jean A. Mendoza and Lilian G. Katz

Promoting play in a school garden and using a blog to document children's nature explorations / Heather Taylor

Drawing, photographs, and painting, learning about the natural world in an urban preschool / Isauro Michael Escamilla.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Sisk-Hilton, Stephanie. Science, nature, and inquiry-based learning in early childhood.

ISBN:

9780415655880

0415655889

9780415655897

0415655897

9780203078396

020307839X

OCLC:

796751019