Each contains stories and non-fiction books for children and teachers, pictures, puzzles, realia, simple equipment for experiments, videos, filmstrips and a response journal. Teachers may borrow boxes for whole class use or for special interest groups. We hope that as children use the boxes we can add student made responses, pictures, stories and observations about animals, the sea, experiments and related objects like shells, rocks, and pressed leaves. Both are useful with young children because they are so full of beautiful color pictures. It has dozens of activities and simple experiments which are appropriate for young children and that require a minimum of special equipment or materials.
Young children love science.
It's not so much stimulating interest as trying to answer their questions,'' says Barbour. At PS 75 in Manhattan, teachers have also found a cross discipline, multi-grade, thematic approach makes it possible to have more time for science, even without a science specialist. The study of the environment at PS 75 encompassed reading, writing, research, science, social studies, math and the visual and performing arts. Since we don't have a science room, the classroom, library and whole community became our laboratory. In the classroom they conducted research on the source and amount of lunch time garbage, then graphed their results.