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Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; Samarapungavan, Ala; Patrick, Helen – Cognition and Instruction, 2009
We examine kindergarten children's emerging social meanings about science as a function of their participation in integrated science inquiry and literacy activities associated with the Scientific Literacy Project (SLP). We describe changes in 123 SLP kindergarten children's narrative accounts of learning science in school during three different…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Young Children, Kindergarten, Science Programs
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Hymer, Viki – Science and Children, 2005
After attending an astronomy camp at Tarleton State University (TSU) for teachers and secondary students in Summer 2002, the author, a kindergarten teacher, was disappointed to discover that the university offered no science camps for elementary students. She returned to her preK-K campus, whining to her principal. What a shame no one would take…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction