EDCT 181: Early Childhood Education Observations

This book brings a collection of practical ideas and tips to inspire engagement and spark learning in your classroom centers--and, importantly, keep children coming back for more. Children learn best through play. Discover how you can help them thrive in your learning centers.

Make math learning both meaningful and fun by building on children's natural curiosity to help them grow into confident problem solvers and investigators of math concepts.

Circle time stimulates learning in all areas of development - from the improvement of social skills and positive relationships to encouraging children to listen to each other within a caring and respectful environment.

Preschool Beyond Walls shows practical and strategic ways educators can create rich, explorative, and interdisciplinary learning through extensive outdoor experiences.

Bringing together a diverse cohort of experts, STEM in Early Childhood Education explores the ways STEM can be integrated into early childhood curricula, highlighting recent research and innovations in the field, and implications for both practice and policy.

Explore how one classroom community played with and collaboratively engaged in authorship.

Highlighting the many commonalities between arts and science such as the processes involved in creative problem solving, the author draws on what we can learn from Leonardo da Vinci as the supreme artist-scientist.

Now in its Third Edition, Young Investigators provides an introduction to the project approach with step-by-step guidance for conducting meaningful investigations with young children.

A broad exploration of the roles and practices of working with, and for, children and families Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education helps teachers connect early childhood education beliefs and philosophies to professional practice.