In a kindergarten, three girls are trying to figure out how to reassemble a food grinder they have taken apart to clean after grinding carrots.
Some boys offer to help, but the girls are determined to figure it out for themselves.
Once they have it put back together, all their classmates burst into spontaneous applause. In a self-contained classroom for students who are deaf, students use American Sign Language to describe how water dripped, streamed, and flowed through the sieves they had constructed themselves from recycled aluminum foil pie pans and plastic cups and bowls. The skills list is translated from English into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Burmese, so all parents can understand what their children are learning, and share what they know with other members of their families. We created EEC, a nonprofit organization, to develop materials for classrooms and offer training for teachers, administrators, and parents. One of our programs is Playtime is Science.