Brooks, Jacqueline Grennon.

Big science for growing minds : constructivist classrooms for young thinkers / Jacqueline Grennon Brooks ; foreword by Doris Pronin Fromberg. - New York : Teachers College Press, c2011. - xi, 179 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Early childhood education series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-171) and index.

Young scientists with growing ideas -- A constructivist view of learning -- Learning to care and caring to learn -- Science as disciplined wonder -- Science learning within family, community, and nature -- Science of learning -- Liberty and science for all -- Negotiating the science curriculum -- Unifying science concepts -- Unifying concepts : the physical environment -- Unifying concepts : the living environment -- Science in the shopping cart : a chemistry unit -- Water, soil, sand, and salt : an earth science unit -- Putting it all together.

ISBN: 9780807751954 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807751952 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2011006670

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Science -- Study and teaching (Early childhood)

LC Class. No.: LB1139.5.S35 / B76 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 372.35/044