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About This Book
• 19 hands-on activities with crayons, including matching, sorting, melting, and weighing
• Based on the four phases of the learning cycle: awareness, exploration, inquiry, and application
• Cross-curricular activities in mathematics, literature, writing, art, and creative play
• Information for teachers on early childhood process skills, learning cycles, and inquiry-based science
• Ages 3–8
“A world of exciting hands-on learning, exploration, and discovery awaits young minds with these engaging texts.”—Big Science for Little Hands series, Earlychildhood NEWS Best Books Pick
Topics : Teaching Strategies
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Using This Book
Part 1: Awareness
Awareness 1: Taking a Closer Look at Science
Awareness 2: Getting Curious About Crayons
Awareness 3:The Crayon-Making Process
Part 2: Exploration
Exploration 1: A Closer Look at
Exploration2: Crayon Match Up
Exploration 4: Sharing Home
Part 3: Inquiry
Inquiry 1: Wax Tracks
inquiry 2: Paper, Paper Everywhere
Inquiry 3: Try Coloring
inquiry 4: Removing Crayon
Inquiry A Major Meltdown
Inquiry 13: How Heavy Are
Part 4: Advanced Inquiry
Advanced Inquiry 1: Size q Up
Advanced Inquiry 2:I Wonder
Part5: Application
Application 1: Let's Compare
Application 2: Is This a Crayon?
Part 6: Crayons Across the Curriculum
Across the Curriculum 1: Writing to Learn
Across the Curriculum 2: One Big Happy Family
Across the Curriculum 3: Book Adventures
Across the Curriculum 4: Group Graph
Across the Curriculum 5: What Are the Chances?
Across the Curriculum 6: Buzzing About Bees
Across the Curriculum 7: Sandpaper Printing
Part 7: Science for Young Learners
Why Early Childhood Science?
Teaching with Learning Cycles
Documenting Learning
Part 8: All About Crayons and Wax
Crayons Are Made from Wax
References
About the Authors
Beverly Kutsunai:
Beverly Kutsunai, Kamehameha Elementary School, Honolulu, HI
Ann Veith:
Ann Veith, Rosedale Elementary School (retired), Middletown, OH
Lynn Hogue:
Lynn Hogue, Center for Chemistry Education, Miami University, Middletown, OH
ISBN: 9786038147078
Author: Ann Veith & Beverly Kutsunai & Lynn Hogue
Publisher: Educational Book House
Publish Year: 2015
Size: 17*24cm
Pages number: 172
