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Better than Worksheets

April 18, 2017

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Caretaking is the utmost spiritual and physical responsibility of our time, and perhaps that stewardship is finally our place in the web of life, our work, the solution to the mystery that we are.
-Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

In her book, Hands-On Science and Math: Fun, Fascinating Activities for Young Children, Beth R. Davis writes: "In my research, published by Florida International University (in a book edited by Jill Farrell and Robert Vos), I found that children exposed to hands-on science instruction gain greater subject-matter understanding than students exposed to only book learning or traditional worksheets. When I doubled the amount of hands-on instruction given to the lowest-performing student population in an at-risk class at a Florida elementary school, these children showed the highest gains when compared with ten other classes made up of average and above-average students in the same elementary school."

Hands-On Science and Math
Fun, Fascinating Activities for Young Children

Encourage young investigators to feel, listen, smell, taste, and see their way to discovery by seamlessly infusing math and science throughout the school day! As you incorporate all five senses into learning experiences, you will give little innovators the opportunity to observe and explore the world around them. The activities in Hands-On Science and Math: Fun, Fascinating Activities for Young Children will help you plan engaging science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) lessons that will excite children and foster their critical thinking.

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Diana Suskind · April 18, 2017
Stonework Play
Leominster, MA, United States

I remember I did a workshop called Ditto, ditto ditto and it's only Monday!

Lori · April 18, 2017
Pennsylvania, United States

Actually touching, observing and interacting with the environment is so natural for children and opens the door to so many topics of discussion. Children are born learners, we should continue to nurture them through authentic experiences and conversations.