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SCIENCE & INQUIRY BASED

"Children entering school already have substantial knowledge of the natural world, much of which is implicit...Contrary to older views, young children are not concrete and simplistic thinkers ... Research shows that children's thinking is surprisingly sophisticated ... Children can use a wide range of reasoning processes that form the underpinnings of scientific thinking, even though their experience is variable and they have much more to learn (Duschl, Schweingruber, & Shouse, 2007, pp 2-3)".

With ACCESS we believe that science should be the center of early childhood curriculum.  While young children are well suited to fully engage in science instruction, whether because of a lack of confidence in their own science content knowledge or a preference to teach other subject areas, many early childhood teachers do not teach science.  To address this problem, the ACCESS Curriculum books go into depth on how to set up an environment that supports science learning throughout the classroom and playground.  The books also give tools for self-assessment to help teachers stage an environment that fully supports science instruction. 
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Young children are natural scientists. Curiosity is the driving force behind childhood explorations.
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Teachers often steer away from physical science, most likely because they have a low comfort level with physics concepts. This teacher engages these preschoolers in the study of light, refection and mirrors.

THE SCIENCE CENTER

TABLE TOP EXPERIMENTS

THE BLOCK AREA

WATER PLAY

DRAMATIC PLAY AREA

MANIPULATIVES

THE ART CENTER

Click here to visit the art gallery and get inspired

SAND PLAY

THE READING CENTER

CIRCLE TIME

THE MUSIC CENTER


SCIENCE OUTSIDE


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