Full Description
In Eco-Education for Young Children, a foremost thought leader in early education describes new ways to investigate the environment in and out of school. Features include:Wide-ranging overviews of current issues and sciences impacting the environmentScenarios to increase children's - and teachers' - passion for environmental sciencesOver 200 "Try This" activitiesStories of break-through scientistsShowcases for Emergent Curriculum and Reggio-inspired practicesRead this book and watch infants' responses to nature, hear toddlers use nature-related words inventively, and feel 0- to 8-year-olds' excitement as they grasp ideas about astronomy, geology, paleontology, biology, and more.
Contents
Chapter 1Project Chapter 3: Earth's Birth Chapter 4: A Brief History of Ideas Chapter 5: Life Begins Chapter 6: Conceiving of Evolution Chapter 7: Genes: Darwin's Missing Proof Chapter 8: Earth's Climate Chapter 9: Webs of Life Chapter 10: Trees: Humans' Best Friends Chapter 11: Toward Environmental Wellness
