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Teaching and learning STEM subjects is more accessible than ever before! Children will be inspired, delighted, and challenged as they use everyday materials and STEM concepts to design and build solutions to problems faced by characters in their favorite books.

Creativity is a cornerstone of complex, unconventional thinking, and developing creativity begins at a young age. With this book, early childhood teachers will discover how to tap into and scaffold children's natural curiosity and creative abilities.

Children's early science experiences are the foundation for future science learning and comprehension - throughout their school years and life. This collection of articles from NAEYC's journal Young Children showcases how to support children's science explorations from infancy to age 8.

Early childhood directors manage through relationships. This important book guides a director through the steps to build respectful, dynamic, and welcoming relationships with families and staff. It covers all traditional early childhood administration topics, from financial management to marketing and development, while also recognizing and exploring the human side of management.

This updated and expanded edition will inspire teachers to make it possible for children to spend more time outdoors, have safe environments, and be free to learn through exploration. Each chapter ends with action items to improve children's access to safe, clean, and interesting places in your community and is packed with resource ideas for further exploration.

Through teacher research, teachers engage in the systematic study of their own practice to answer questions they have about teaching and learning, and their own effectiveness. This book explores what teacher research in early childhood settings looks like; why it is important to the field of early childhood education; and how teacher educators can support it.

Drawing from evidence-based practice and the latest research, this book explains the multitude of benefits of big body play for young children's social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Also learn how to organise the physical environment, set rules and policies, and supervise the play.

Expanded and updated, this classic book helps teachers discover exciting possibilities for block play. It details the rich contributions of blocks to creative and dramatic play as well as to science, maths, social studies, and other learning domains. It also includes practical tips for equipping and organising the block area, plus a chapter on large blocks.

Filled with practical strategies and useful information on art, music and movement, and dramatic play, this book offers learning centre ideas; engaging activities; practical suggestions that are easy to implement; ideas that support the development and learning; and children's book recommendations.

It is important for teachers to incorporate mathematics into the daily curriculum to help ensure young children gain the foundational skills for later success in maths. In this collection of articles, teachers of children from infancy to age 8 will learn how to help children develop, construct, test, and reflect on their mathematical understandings.

Successful and effective preschool teachers use creative, engaging approaches to support the development and learning of every child in the classroom. The highly relevant and practical articles in this volume offer research-based, developmentally appropriate strategies that preschool teachers can use or adapt for their work with young children and families.

Play helps children learn to understand themselves and get along with others; explore their environment; investigate science, math, and literacy; learn about their communities; and much more. The articles in this collection emphasize the importance of play - from infancy through the primary grades - to support and scaffold children's play and connect play to learning.