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 environment
Scenarios to increase children's - and teachers' - passion for environmental sciences
Over 200 "Try This" activities
Stories of break-through scientists
Showcases for Emergent Curriculum and Reggio-inspired practices
Read 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.