Exploring Water with Young Children, Trainer's Guide

Exploring Water with Young Children, Trainer's Guide
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2005-05-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605543241

The trainer’s guide serves as an indispensable handbook for trainers and administrators interested in introducing staff to the Exploring Water with Young Children curriculum—from planning to implementation. From exploring sinking and floating to using books to extend science learning, seven basic and eight advanced workshops develop staff members’ understanding of science and inquiry teaching skills. The guide also includes strategies for supporting teachers over time through mentoring and guided discussions, as well as an extensive resource list.

Exploring Water with Young Children

Exploring Water with Young Children
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2005-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1929610548

Discover the science behind exploring and understanding water with young children.

Discovering Nature with Young Children

Discovering Nature with Young Children
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2003-11-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605543152

Field-tested across the country, this comprehensive curriculum expands and extends the role science has traditionally played in the early childhood classroom. The first in a new series, Discovering Nature with Young Children explores the wide-ranging elements that make up the natural world around us. The curriculum replaces simple fact-feeding practices with the development of long-term scientific reasoning, including literacy skills and numeracy skills, such as hypothesis, inference, prediction, and estimation.

Building Structures with Young Children--Trainer's Guide

Building Structures with Young Children--Trainer's Guide
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2004-10-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605543225

A companion to the curriculum, this trainer’s guide serves as an indispensable handbook for trainers and administrators interested in introducing staff to the Building Structures with Young Children curriculum—from planning to implementation. Special sections outline the curriculum and introduce scientific reasoning to adults, and eight workshops detail the complete curriculum for staff members. The guide also includes strategies for supporting teachers over time through mentoring and guided discussions.

Exploring Water with Young Children

Exploring Water with Young Children
Author: Ingrid Chalufour
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005-05-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605543160

Discover the science behind exploring and understanding water with young children.

Audiovisual Resources

Audiovisual Resources
Author: Wisconsin. Child Care Information Center
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Child care
ISBN: