Amazon.com description: Product Description: Exploring Science in Early Childhood, long used as a teaching tool at Harvard and other top universities, is the best example of a text that teaches activities and applications in a developmental sequence to support children's learning. When put into practice, the approaches taught here will help children construct the concepts and skills essential to a basic understanding of science. These concepts and skills are also needed for an understanding of mathematics and are closely related to the skills used in reading, especially reading comprehension. The concepts, skills, and instructional strategies are aligned with the national standards in all fields and have been developed in cooperation with teachers at each developmental level, and then field tested for success. To further ensure success, assessments have been provided at every level. Finally, the emphasis on three types of learning-naturalistic, informal, and structured-makes the concepts, skills, and instructional strategies especially easy to integrate into different classroom or learning situations