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Investigating Ramps and Pathways With Young Children (Ages 3–8)

Edited by: Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren

Publication Date: December 23, 2022

Pages: 160

Series: STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series

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ISBN: 9780807767641
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Investigating Ramps and Pathways With Young Children (Ages 3–8) 9780807767641
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Children are intrigued by moving objects, even more so when they can engineer the movement. This volume in the STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series uses ramps and pathways as a context to provide children ages 3–8 opportunities to engage in STEM every day. Ramps and Pathways is a meaningful and fun way for children to develop engineering habits of mind as they explore concepts in force and motion, properties of objects, and how those properties affect their movement. In the process, children develop spatial thinking that is essential for future careers in STEM. The text also offers guidance for arranging the physical, intellectual, social–emotional, and promotional environments of a classroom to embrace the natural integration of literacy learning. Each volume in this series includes guidance for forming partnerships with families and administrators that support STEM learning, vignettes showing educators and children engaging in inquiry learning, tips for selecting materials, modifications and accommodations for diverse learners, ways to establish adult learning communities that support professional development, and more.

Book Features:

  • Alignment with both the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) and the NGSS Science and Engineering Practices, with specific descriptions of how those science and engineering practices in Ramps and Pathways look and feel in Pre-K–2 classrooms.
  • Examples of how to integrate literacy learning in a meaningful way.
  • Descriptions of how the open-ended nature of ramps and pathways aligns with the Universal Design for Learning Framework (UDL).
  • Guidance to help teachers anticipate and plan for all children to become purposeful, motivated, resourceful, knowledgeable, strategic, and goal-directed about learning.
  • Examples of how to stage, introduce, and support children’s designs to develop engineering habits of mind (systems thinking, optimism, creativity, communication, collaboration, attention to ethical considerations).
  • A meaningful and healthy context to grow children’s executive function skills (EFs), including inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility.

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Beth Dykstra Van Meeteren is director of the Iowa Regents' Center for Early Developmental Education and associate professor of literacy education at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Books In This Series
Investigating Ramps and Pathways With Young Children (Ages 3–8)
Investigating Ramps and Pathways With Young Children (Ages 3–8)
Investigating Light and Shadow With Young Children (Ages 3–8)
Investigating Light and Shadow With Young Children (Ages 3–8)
Investigating STEM With Infants and Toddlers (Birth–3)
Investigating STEM With Infants and Toddlers (Birth–3)
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