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Basic Science Concepts

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Five Senses
Food and Nutrition / Health
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Preschool Basic Science Concepts (5 products)

science teaching suppliesThe Best of The Mailbox Science

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten
Price: $17.95
Product #: 2001493
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Enrich children's understanding of their world with this timesaving collection of science experiences from The Mailbox magazine. You'll find a variety of favorite units and features that will actively involve your little ones in their learning.

These creative ideas will help you integrate science into all of your daily activities-from circle time to center time. Patterns and reproducibles for centers, experiments, and group activities make preparation quick and easy. Inside this invaluable classroom resource you'll find:

  • Science-based thematic units with across-the-curriculum activities
  • Activities that encourage students' active participation
  • Helpful ideas for science centers
  • Experiments
  • Independent and small-group activities
  • Critical-thinking activities
  • Literature links
  • Student Reproducibles
  • Patterns

Science units in this book cover the early childhood science topics that you need, including:

  • Trees
  • Pumpkins
  • Winter Weather
  • The Five Senses
  • Dental Health
  • Plants
  • Butterflies and Birds
  • Sound
  • And many more! (See the Table of Contents for a complete list)

Pages: 159


Science Teacher Materials Resource BookSeasonal Science

Grade Level: Preschool - Kindergarten
Price: $17.95
Product#: 2061005
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Introduce preschoolers and kindergartners to basic science concepts all year long with 25 timesaving, seasonal thematic units. This teaching book is just what you need to get your little ones interested in science. It includes 25 thematic science units for fall, winter, and spring, including:

  • Rocks
  • Water
  • Colors
  • Sun and Shadows
  • Rain
  • The Heart
  • Plants
  • Healthful Habits
  • Birds
  • Bubbles
  • Plus 15 additional high-interest topics!

Packed with creative ideas, each of the book's 25 seasonal science units provides

  • Practical, fun-to-do activities
  • Exciting, easy-to-manage, hands-on experiments
  • Simple explanations of experiment outcomes
  • Engaging reproducibles, recording sheets, and patterns

Because the ideas in this teaching resource were developed by real early childhood teachers, you can be confident that they're developmentally appropriate and practical in terms of materials, prep time, and classroom management. No matter what season of the school year it is, make sure Seasonal Science is on your bookshelf! You pick the season and we'll provide the science!

160 pages


hands-on science teaching resourceHands-On Science

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten
Price: $29.99
Product #: 3007304
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This resource consists of 187 hands-on experiments that help students get in touch with science concepts! Explore weather, parts of the body, health and hygiene, living and nonliving things, and more.

Every experiment includes material lists, procedures, and discussion questions with answers. Each experiment is accompanied by a follow-up activity page which reinforces science concepts while enhancing reading comprehension skills. Experiment pages help students build skills in these areas:

  • Observing
  • Graphing
  • Recognizing relationships
  • Problem Solving
  • Measuring
  • Predicting
  • Interpreting information

Reproducible awards are also included!

The activity pages in this book help you integrate reading with science by incorporating comprehension skills like the following in a science context:

  • Sequencing
  • Classifying
  • Vocabulary development
  • Drawing conclusions
  • Determining cause and effect
  • Finding the main idea

Use the experiment and activity pages together or separately. You may choose activities based on the skills and interests of your students.

Experiments and activities in this book cover a wide range of facts in six broad topics:

  • Weather
  • Days, Months, Seasons
  • Parts of the Body
  • Senses
  • Health and Hygiene
  • Living and Non-Living Things

Pages: 384


science skills activities and centersLiteracy Centers for Science Skills

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade
Price: $19.99
Product #: 1003399
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Introduce young children to exciting, hands-on science experiences. Use full color manipulatives to appeal to their sense of curiosity and willingness to explore and experiment. The easy-to-use activities are based on standards and accompanied by age-appropriate assessments.

Full-color, hands-on centers encourage students to make their own scientific discoveries. Simple literacy activities explore different areas of Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Physical Science. Student cards and reproducibles are ready-to-use. Teacher pages include instructions to create standards-based activities and ideas for presentation, assessment, and extensions.

Includes activities in the following science areas:

  • Nature of Science - developing the skills of questioning, planning, predicting, implementing, and observing as a way of learning
  • Life Science - the study of living things, their characteristics, and their relationship to the environment (Topics: ladybugs, spiders, animals and their eggs, coral reefs)
  • Earth and Space Science - the study of Earth's elements and structure (rocks, soil, metals, water, air) as well as its place in the universe (Topics: shadows, lakes and rivers, stars)
  • Physical Science - the study of matter and its properties (size, shape, color, composition, etc.); the position and motion of objects; the nature of light, heat, electricity, and magnetism (Topics: trees and wood, water around me, tools and machines)

Pages: 176


preschool kindergarten science student made booksI Can Make It! I Can Read It! Science

Grade Level: Preschool, Kindergarten
Price: $12.95
Product #: 2003521
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Your proud young readers will say, "I can make it and I can read it!" when they complete these irresistible, interactive booklets. You can be sure they'll want to share their reading success with friends and family too.

These student-made booklets help develop essential science and early literacy skills through rhyming, repetitive, or predictable text. As they color, cut, paste, and write, your little ones will also be developing their fine-motor skills.

Choose from 20 booklets to complete your science curriculum, such as animal habitats, plant growth, and butterfly life cycle. Fun formats include shape books, accordion books, pop-up books, and more! Curriculum extensions, literature links, and ideas for sharing at school and at home are also included.

This book includes the following favorite themes for science:

  • Scientific Process
  • Animal Growth
  • Animal Habitats
  • Plant Growth
  • Seed Growth
  • Insects
  • Butterfly Life Cycle
  • Seasons
  • Weather
  • Clouds
  • Colors and Textures
  • Five Senses
  • Nutrition
  • Natural Resources
  • Rocks
  • Magnets
  • Solid, Liquid, Gas
  • Float and Sink
  • Recycling
  • Sun and Moon

Pages: 96


See also:
Five Senses
Food and Nutrition / Health
Plants
Weather

 



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