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Direct linkTenenbaum, Harriet R.; Rappolt-Schlichtmann, Gabrielle; Zanger, Virginia Vogel – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2004
This study investigated the effectiveness of a combined museum and classroom intervention project on science learning in low-income children. The focus of the program was on children's content knowledge and concept complexity. Thirty children were in the experimental group. A control group of 18 children visited literacy and social studies…
Descriptors: Science Education, Water, Museums, Classrooms
Download full textFroschl, Merle, Ed.; Nichols, Rodney W., Ed.; Skopp, Lori, Ed.; Sprung, Barbara, Ed. – 2000
This document reports on a conference that was convened by Educational Equity Concepts, Inc. and the New York Academy of Sciences. Disciplines that were represented included child development, special education, early childhood education, sociology, psychology, physics, mathematics, assessment, teacher education, parent involvement, economics, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Style, Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education
Lind, Karen K. – 1998
Efforts to introduce children to essential experiences of science inquiry must begin at an early age. This paper describes the development of fundamental concepts and skills used from infancy through the primary years and presents strategies for helping students to acquire those fundamental concepts and skills needed for inquiry learning. The…
Descriptors: Child Development, Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education, Fundamental Concepts
