Preview: Building Structures with Young Children DVD

From playground equipment to skyscrapers, structures have a major role in our lives. The second topic in the Young Scientist series, Building Structures with Young Children presents to teachers explorations that deepen children's understanding of building block structures-including concepts such as gravity, stability, and balance.
Looking at science in a new way, this nationally field-tested curriculum supports the early development of important science-inquiry skills such as questioning, investigating, discussing, and formulating ideas and theories-all aimed at helping children
Learn to build with a variety of materials.
Experience how forces such as gravity, compression, and tension affect a - structure’s stability.
Understand how the characteristics of materials affect a structure’s stability.
Develop scientific dispositions including curiosity, eagerness to explore, an open mind, and delight in being a builder.
For teachers who want children to do serious science-not just passively experience it- this resource-rich curriculum gives you all the tools you need. Subject areas in this curriculum correlate to the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework.
The full-color DVD presents eight real-life vignettes of the curriculum in action for observation, reflection, and discussion.
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