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Science--Not Just for Scientists! Easy Explorations for Young Children - Paperback

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Children are natural scientists, drawn to wonder, exploration, discovery, and analysis. This book gives you simple ideas to open up the world of discovery to young children. Through open-ended explorations, you will discover how to cultivate children's natural curiosity by asking simple questions: How? When? Where? And the most famous of all children's questions: Why? The hands-on activities will empower children to question, experiment, and develop abstract reasoning skills. Children will explore patterns, cause and effect, size and scale, change and growth, energy, and how things work. Easy to follow, step-by-step activities lead children and their caregivers through a new world of discovery. Paperback. 96 pages.

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 4 reviews)

Christopher ★★★★★

I grabbed this for my three-year-old who keeps asking why things float or sink, and the sink-or-float activity needed almost no prep. The open-ended exploration ideas fit right into our afternoon routine.

Joseph ★★★★★

The open-ended approach here is refreshing — no step-by-step instructions, just simple ideas that let my kids poke at things and figure them out themselves. My four-year-old spent a solid twenty minutes with the sink-or-float activity, which never happens.

Elizabeth N. ★★★★★

The open-ended exploration ideas in here need almost no prep, which is exactly what I wanted for my daycare group. We turned a leaf-collecting walk into a whole sorting and comparing session and the kids stayed with it for nearly an hour.