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Connectors: Essential Tools for Engineering

March 21, 2025

Tags: bradsj, building, connectors, engineering, loose parts, staples, tape, wire

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 10A
  • 11A

STEM Adventures in Nature's Laboratory

March 7, 2025

Tags: cause and effect, chemistry, loose parts, nature, outdoor play, physics, play, water

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 7A
  • 7B
  • 7C
  • 10A
  • 10B
  • 10C
  • 11A
  • 12A
  • 12C
  • 13A
  • 13B

Molding Young Minds: Engineering with Clay

February 21, 2025

Tags: balance, base, cause and effect, design, loose parts, problem solve, structure, symmetry

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 10A
  • 11A
  • 12C
  • 12D

Engineering Adventures for "Magnificent Makers"

February 7, 2025

Tags: Ashley Spires, book, cause and effect, engineering, loose parts, The Most Magnificent Maker's A to Z

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

Constructing Creativity: Early Engineering Projects at the NAEYC Conference

January 21, 2025

Tags: building, cause and effect, design, engineering, play

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

Eagle Nest Adventures

January 9, 2025

Tags: building, design, eagles, engineering, habitats, loose parts, nature, nest, outdoor play, play

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

STEM Adventures on a Snowy Hill

December 16, 2024

Tags: cause and effect, force, nature, play, speed, winter

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

From Books to Towers: First Steps in Engineering

December 4, 2024

Tags: architecture, books, buildings, design, investigation, pipecleaners, play, structures

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

Balancing Blocks and Books

November 21, 2024

Tags: balance, building, engineering, hypothesis, play, theories

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

Ramping Up Some Fun

November 8, 2024

Tags: blocks, building, cause and effect, motion, play, ramps, speed

Standards:
  • IELD:
  • 11A
  • 12C
  • 12D
  • 13A
  • 13B
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Build on the strengths children bring to the kindergarten classroom.

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boy counting fingers

Bring early math concepts to life for young learners.

Find out more at earlymathcounts.org

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

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Build on the strengths children bring to the kindergarten classroom.

Find out how at readychild.org

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