An NSTA Report
Elementary Science Coalition Board Member and outgoing NSTA President Page Keeley has written a great article on the importance of elementary science education.
She states, “Learning in science begins in early childhood. This is a time when young minds are curious about science and ready to engage in the practices and language of science that form a foundation to be built upon and strengthened throughout a student’s K-12 education. Young children bring to science views of the natural world and ways of thinking that have a major impact on their learning as they progress from one grade level to the next. Ignoring these ideas and delaying the development of science language and practices until students formally encounter science in middle school certainly violates what we know about systems: If one part is missing, it affects the other parts of the system.”
Please click here to read the full article.
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Tags: elementary science, Inquiry Science, science curriculum