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Worms, Shadows, and Whirlpools: Science in the Early Childhood Classroom
This book represents a new way to think about science education for young children. Based on the growing understanding that even the littlest learners are powerful thinkers and theory makers, it identifies important science inquiry skills and concepts...
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Writing in the Elementary Classroom : A Reconsideration
The educational climate for teaching writing is a lot different now than it was in the eighties when much of the groundbreaking research was first published. The contributors to Writing in the Elementary Classroom take that thinking and push it in new...
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Young Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction in Early Childhood Education
"Young children are naturally curious and observant, and enter school ready to connect their rich informal understandings about the world around them to their experiences in classrooms.” —Thomas Carpenter, Megan Franke, Nicholas Johnson,...