ScienceStart! Curriculum

• Overview
• The Everyday World
• Engaging Content
• The Cycle of Scientific Reasoning
• Modules
• Measurement and Mapping
• Color and Light
• Properties of Matter
• Neighborhood Habitats
• Movement and Machines
• Sample Weekly Planning Wheel
• Sample Lesson Plan
• Cognitive and Linguistic Gains

ScienceStart! and Your Family

• Families as Educators
• What Do Preschool Children Need?
• Parents' Place in ScienceStart!
• Sample ZipKit
• Science Celebrations
• Parts of a Plant Salad
• Popping Bags
• Knock It Over
• Cooking with ScienceStart!
• Making Popsicles
• Half Moon Cookies
• Edible Wheels
• Little Red Hen Bread
• Quick Science Lessons
• Measuring a Jump
• Make a Convex Lens
• Air Moves and Things Move
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Pulling Pulleys
• Home Schooling
• Sample ZipKit
• Sample Weekly Planning Wheel
• Sample Lesson Plan

Why Science?

• Ten Good Reasons

1. The world around us...
2. Everyday experience...
3. Open-ended activities...
4. Hands-on activities...
5. Trial and error...
6. Language and literacy...
7. Participate with limited language...
8. Science skills generalize to social situations...
9. Demonstrations encourage large group conversations...
10. Science connects to other areas...

• How Preschoolers Learn
• ScienceStart! and Child Development
• Theoretical Foundations
• A Systems Perspective

ScienceStart! Research Outcomes

• Initial Development of ScienceStart!
• Research Outcomes
• Receptive Vocabulary (PPVT)
• Knowledge of the Alphabet
• Get Ready to Read
• Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDI)

Your ScienceStart! Classroom

• Teaching Style
• A Typical Day
• Classroom Equipment and Setup
• Materials for Measurement and Mapping
• Materials for Color and Light
• Materials for Properties of Matter
• Materials for Neighborhood Habitats
• Materials for Movement and Machines
• Including Parents
• Sample ZipKit

Meet Standards with ScienceStart!

• Overview
• Meeting Standards Every Day

Professional Development

• Overview