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Dig In: Outdoor STEM Learning with Young Children - Paperback

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Category: Science

  • Develop children's problem-solving and critical-thinking skills? Check.
  • Support children's communication and collaboration skills? Check.
  • Inspire children's creativity and innovative thinking? Check.
  • Meet early learning standards in literacy, math, and more? Yes, please!

How can early childhood teachers do all this? By engaging children in outdoor STEM discoveries!


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Dig In: Outdoor STEM Learning with Young Children

provides strategies, ideas, real-life examples, and information to help you get children outside and learning, all while meeting required early learning standards and objectives. Explore the Learning Life Cycle and discover fresh ideas for engaging children in deeper explorations and experiences outdoors that will stick with them into kindergarten and beyond. Have more aha moments, seize learning opportunities, invite questions, and investigate answers-while supporting rich STEM learning.



Paperback. 140 pages.

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Customer Reviews (4.3 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Christopher ★★★★★

The way it breaks down problem-solving into simple outdoor activities is exactly what my co-teacher and I needed for our preschool science block. My kids were actually arguing over who got to test the next hypothesis.

Scarlett ★★★★★

The section on fostering creative thinking through outdoor play is exactly what our preschool team needed, and the real-world examples made it easy to adapt for our own yard. I've already started using the problem-solving prompts with my three-year-olds, and their engagement during outdoor time has

Victoria ★★★☆☆

The case studies are well laid out, but I wish the paperback included a few more hands-on activity templates for quick reference. It’s solid for planning, just not as practical for a busy afternoon.