Sensory Science
Sensory play includes any activity that stimulates your young child’s senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Sensory activities and sensory tables facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore. Spending time stimulating their senses helps children develop cognitively, linguistically, socially and emotionally, physically and creatively.
STEM Sprouts is one curriculum dedicated in developing STEM skills in early education. Pinterest has a number of ideas to bring this alive in a classroom. Here is another Pinterest with even more ideas! Here is another early childhood science activity handout filled with practical ideas for the classroom. Science Activities Around the World has a number of easy to manage science lessons. Helping Your Child Learn Science is a practice list of ideas for families. We also have a number of websites dedicated to science education for young children:
BBC Interactive Activities for Young Children.
Climate Kids (NASA) Ideas and activities to study water, climate, air, and energy.
Exploratorium has many hands-on activities, visuals, video and interactives.
How to Smile has free interactive lesson plans for science and math.
iStem has over 80 activities for PreK-3.
Monarchs and Migration is a great site to support a butterfly science unit.
National Geographic for Kids has many images, videos and activities to support background knowledge.
PBS Learning Media has 100's of free lesson plans, interactives and video/images. PBS Resource List.
Scistarter allows your classroom to participate in real scientific research with scientists around the world.
Science Bug includes video and activities to excite children about science.
Science Challenge a variety of science activities and downloads for teachers.
Science and Math education is another teaching idea to consider when collaborating with the educator and the science curriculum.
STEM Sprouts is one curriculum dedicated in developing STEM skills in early education. Pinterest has a number of ideas to bring this alive in a classroom. Here is another Pinterest with even more ideas! Here is another early childhood science activity handout filled with practical ideas for the classroom. Science Activities Around the World has a number of easy to manage science lessons. Helping Your Child Learn Science is a practice list of ideas for families. We also have a number of websites dedicated to science education for young children:
BBC Interactive Activities for Young Children.
Climate Kids (NASA) Ideas and activities to study water, climate, air, and energy.
Exploratorium has many hands-on activities, visuals, video and interactives.
How to Smile has free interactive lesson plans for science and math.
iStem has over 80 activities for PreK-3.
Monarchs and Migration is a great site to support a butterfly science unit.
National Geographic for Kids has many images, videos and activities to support background knowledge.
PBS Learning Media has 100's of free lesson plans, interactives and video/images. PBS Resource List.
Scistarter allows your classroom to participate in real scientific research with scientists around the world.
Science Bug includes video and activities to excite children about science.
Science Challenge a variety of science activities and downloads for teachers.
Science and Math education is another teaching idea to consider when collaborating with the educator and the science curriculum.
