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Promoting STEM with the Full Range of Learners: Bridging Research and Practice

by Shelly Lynn Counsell and Janet Thompson
May/June 2017
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RESEARCH:

Early childhood classrooms using a constructivist approach have long provided young children with important opportunities to build their own content knowledge through active exploration, make sense of their surroundings, and use what they learn to design and create something new (Brooks, 2011). “Ramps and Pathways” is an approach to physical science that is guided and informed by constructivist theory. The use of specific materials is encouraged for the study of movement of objects along ramps and pathways. R&P was developed by the Regents’ Center for Early Developmental Education at the University of Northern Iowa and supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to pilot and field test it. The pilot study and field-testing were conducted over three years in three states with 42 teacher participants. While few studies have examined the participation of ...

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