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This excellent two-part article by Cindy Hoisington is a must-read for early childhood educators. Share it with your colleagues, families of the children you teach, and the instructors and professors of courses you take!
SCIENCE AND CHILDREN 2024, VOL. 61, NO. 1, 6-10
Science in Preschool, Part 1: Leveraging the power of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) with consideration to Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP). By Cindy Hoisington
Excerpt:
This two-part article (continued in the next issue of S&C) will describe four powerful key ideas embedded in the Framework and the NGSS and ways in which early educators might leverage them with consideration to the unique characteristics of young children and developmentally appropriate practice (DAP).
These four key ideas include:
1. Science incorporates a set of disciplinary core ideas in life, physical, and Earth/space science and crosscutting concepts (e.g. cause and effect, patterns, structure and function) that all students should be familiar with by the time they leave school.
2. Engaging with the science and engineering practices is an essential component of a high-quality science education.
3. A primary goal of K–12 science is to promote students’ evidence-based thinking.
4. Broadening participation in science and supporting students’ positive science attitudes requires connecting what students are doing and learning in school to their day-to-day lived experiences and interests.
SCIENCE AND CHILDREN 2024, VOL. 61, NO. 2, 6-11
Continued in Science in Preschool, Part 2: Leveraging the power of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) with consideration to Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP), by Cindy Hoisington
'This is the second of two parts of an article describing how key ideas from A Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) might be enacted and applied in early childhood settings with young children with considerations to Developmentally Appropriate Practice. See Part 1 in the January/February 2024 issue of Science and Children.'
Best wishes,
Peggy
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