Science in the Classroom: Finding a Balance Between Autonomous Exploration and Teacher-Led Instruction in Preschool Settings

By Irena Nayfeld, Kimberly Brenneman, Rochel Gelman. 2011

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Subfields: Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Using the Scientific Method to Guide Learning: An Integrated Approach to Early Childhood Curriculum (2013, background): “Although the reasons vary, teachers tend not to provide high-quality science experiences in early childhood classrooms (Nayfeld et al. 2011; Tu 2006) and instead teach science through a series of isolated experiments without connection to the broader curriculum.”