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Tall Towers In Early Engineering Play

January 16, 2026

Tags: Bliocks, building, design, engineering, gravity, play

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 11A
  • 12C
  • 12D
  • 13B

Leaf People and the Power of Early Engineering

November 21, 2025

Tags: building, design, engineering, loose parts, nature, outdoor play, play

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 11A
  • 12A
  • 12C
  • 12D
  • 12F

Building the Brain With Grains of Sand

September 5, 2025

Tags: absorption, building, collaboration, design, desing, investigations, loose parts, sand, sandcastle, test, water

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 10A
  • 10B
  • 10C
  • 11A
  • 12C
  • 12D
  • 12E
  • 12F
  • 13B

Investigating Nests

August 6, 2025

Tags: birds, de-construct, design, hypothesis, nature, nest, outdoor play, theories

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 11A
  • 12A
  • 12B
  • 12C
  • 12D
  • 12E
  • 12F
  • 13A
  • 13B

Fort-Building Fun!

July 14, 2025

Tags: building, design, forts, hypothesis, nature, outdoor play, theories

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 11A
  • 12A
  • 12C
  • 12D
  • 12E
  • 12F
  • 13B

Measure Up With STEM

June 1, 2025

Tags: measurement, outdoor play, tape measure

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 11A
  • 12A
  • 12C
  • 13B

Building Arches: Exploring Shape, Structure, and Engineering

May 21, 2025

Spin Into STEM: Early Engineering with Pinwheels!

May 9, 2025

Engineering Puzzle Fun

April 23, 2025

Exploring Magnetic Fields and Forces

April 9, 2025

Tags: cause and effect, hypothesis, magnets, magnetss, play, vocabulary

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 11A
  • 13B
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From stars in the night sky to the life cycle of a butterfly, science is all around us.

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Bring early math concepts to life for young learners.

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Build on the strengths children bring to the kindergarten classroom.

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child with butterfly on nose

From stars in the night sky to the life cycle of a butterfly, science is all around us.

Download free early science lesson plans and more at earlysciencematters.org

boy counting fingers

Bring early math concepts to life for young learners.

Find out more at earlymathcounts.org

child plays with toys

Build on the strengths children bring to the kindergarten classroom.

Find out how at readychild.org

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