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Dig in : outdoor STEM learning with young children / Lea Ann Christenson
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christenson, Lea Ann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Outdoor education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newburyport : Gryphon House, Incorporated, 2022
- Summary:
- Develop children's problem-solving and critical-thinking skills? Check. Support children's communication and collaboration skills? Check. Inspire children's creativity and innovative thinking? Check. Meet early learning standards in literacy, math, and more? Yes, please! How can early childhood teachers do all this? By engaging children in outdoor STEM discoveries! Dig In: Outdoor STEM Learning with Young Children provides strategies, ideas, real-life examples, and information to help you get children outside and learning, all while meeting required early learning standards and objectives. Explore the Learning Life Cycle and discover fresh ideas for engaging children in deeper explorations and experiences outdoors that will stick with them into kindergarten and beyond. Have more aha moments, seize learning opportunities, invite questions, and investigate answers--while supporting rich STEM learning. Chapter 1: The Richness of Outdoor Learning Chapter 2: The Learning Life Cycle Chapter 3: The Deep Thinkers and the Child-Teacher-Land Relationship Chapter 4: Planting the Seeds of Experiential Learning Chapter 5: Growing the Roots of Wonder: 21st-Century Skills Chapter 6: Unearthing STEM in the Learning Life Cycle Chapter 7: The Sun and the Rain Make the Garden Grow--Directors, Teachers, Families, and Stakeholders Chapter 8: Making the Outdoor Classroom a Reality.
- Contents:
- The richness of outdoor learning
- The learning life cycle
- The deep thinkers and the child-teacher-land relationship
- Planting the seeds of experiential learning
- Growing the roots of wonder: twenty-first-century skills
- Unearthing STEM in the learning life cycle
- The sun and the rain make the garden grow
- directors, teachers, families, and stakeholders
- Making the outdoor classroom a reality.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- version électronique
- ISBN:
- 9780876599266
- 0876599269
- OCLC:
- 1338837788
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