Full Description
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 founded 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.
Contents
Part I -Science, Nature, and Inquiry: Theoretical and Practical FoundationsChapter 1: Science, Nature, and Inquiry-Based Learning in Early Childhood, Stephanie Sisk-HiltonChapter 2: Nature Education and Teacher Inquiry, Daniel MeierPart II - Science, Nature, and Inquiry: Infants and ToddlersChapter 3: Babies and Nature - The Act of Noticing in Infancy, Camille T. DungyChapter 4: Promoting Nature Study for Toddlers, Mabel YoungChapter 5: Overcoming Our Fears - Embarking on a Nature Journey, Gita JayewardenePart III Science, Nature, and Inquiry - PreschoolersChapter 6: Naturally Speaking: Parents, Children, Teachers in Dialogue with Nature, Darcy Campbell and Shawna ThompsonChapter 7: Preschool Children Explore the Forest - The Power of Wild Places in Childhood, Anna GoldenChapter 8: Putting the Forest on the Map - Using Documentation to Further Natural Inquiry, Marty GravettChapter 9: Nature Education and the Project Approach, Jean A. Mendoza and Lilian G. KatzChapter 10: Promoting Play in a School Garden and Using a Blog to Document Children's Nature Explorations, Heather TaylorChapter 11: Drawing, Photographs, and Painting - Learning about the Natural World in an Urban Preschool, Isauro Michael Escamilla
