Preschool education

This video explains how you can use common themes or essential questions to help enhance your existing curriculum and incorporated opportunities for sustainable education.

This video shares steps you can take to organize and prepare for outings within your community.

By Vitor Duarte Teodoro and Monica Mesquita

The report establish a framework for the procedures, based on six tenets (Commitment to teaching, to students and to their learning; knowledge of science and mathematics; knowledge of students; knowledge of the art of teaching; science as a way of thinking; and reflection and professional growth) and makes thirteen proposals for a Modeling Methodology.

Source: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL), March 2004

By Dr Sue Allingham, Sue Cowley and others

This guide is split into sections on play, child development, behaviour, inclusion, management, leadership, sustainability and parent partnerships but we hope you can use this guide as a reference point to help across all areas of your care. All the quotes used are from interviews we've published, which you can find using the handy index we've added at the end.

Source: The Family Team

This video offers you some ideas on where to start engaging children in place based and service learning opportunities, and how you can assist them in building a sense of caring and action.

By Hagit Mano, Kathleen Molina, Alissa Lange, and Irena Nayfeld

Children engage in informal engineering when they explore materials, when they take things apart, and put them back together, and when they create their own solutions to real problems. In this article we describe how preschool children, with their teacher's guidance, engage in three dimensional learning. 

Source: Science & Children, Vol. 57, No. 2, September 2019

By Todd R. Kelley and J. Geoff Knowles

The following paper will operationalise STEM education key concepts and blend learning theories to build an integrated STEM education framework to assist in further explore integrated STEM education.

Source: International Journal of STEM Education, Vol. 3, No. July 11, 2016

This video depicts space arrangements, and items you can offer children to promote learning and exploration.

By Jolyn Blank and Stefanie Lynch

The engineering design process, finding a problem, imagining and planning, creating, and improving, enables educators to engage young children's minds in solving real problems, demonstrate that learning includes testing and revising, and help children explore a wide range of STEM topics.

Source: NAEYC, Young Children, Vol. 73, No. 4, September 2018