Contents:

Foreword
Young Children and Scientific Discovery by Dr. David Winnett and Sharon WinnettThe Whole Child or Integral “I”: Self-Concept and the Development of the New Scientists by Eloise R. HaymanSelf-Esteem, the Disabled, and Discovery Science: Natural Processes by Dr. Robert M. WagnerEmerging Literacy and Science: Natural Processes by Dr. Susan W. Nall
Where Do Health and Nurtition Fit?
Personal Safety:  An Issue In Teaching Body Awareness
Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Parent Involvement
Resources and Helpers
How to Use This Book
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
References

Chapter One-Keeping in Touch:  Using Your Hands and Feet 

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3+  Odd Socks

4+  Tickle Touch
4+  Wet Socks, Dry Socks

4+  All Different Kinds of Feet

3+  A Zoo Full of Feet

4+  Fantastic Feats With Feet

3+  Make Your Own X-ray

3+  Helping Hands

4+  How Many Hands Tall?

3+  Shadow Pictures

3+  A Round of Applause

3+  See Through Hands

3+  Feet in a Bag

4+  Frozen Fingers

4+  Picture Perfect Palm Prints

4+  Pair Roundup

4+  Mystery Bead Bags

2+  Helping Our Fingers: Play

4+  Finger Flicks

4+  Quick Catch:  Reaction Time

4+  A Hand Span

4+  Snapping Fingers

Chapter Two-Huggers and Hoppers:  How Arms and Legs Help You

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2+  Give Yourself a Hug
3+  Reach for the Stars
5+  Tired, Tired, Tired

3+  Circle Back Rubs

4+  Wide World of Sports

4+  Bones Can’t Hide

4+  What a Pair:  Muscle Teamwork

4+  What Is an Arm’s Length?

3+  It’s a Tosspu

2+  Let’s Go Visit the Zoo Today:  Moving With the Animals

3+  Weather Walk

3+  Walk Along Tales

4+  Penguin Running

4+  Balls of Fun:  Exploring Attributes of Spherical Objects in Flight

4+  1, 2, 3 Jump

4+  Walking Then and Now

3+  Space Walk

3+  Quirky Jerks

4+  Pick a Quick Kick:  Prediction

Chapter Three-Here’s Looking at You: How Eyes See

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4+  Backwards Button Up

4+  Complementary Colors

3+  Make It Big-Make It Small, Eyeglasses Do It All

4+  The Eyes Have It

3+  You Aren’t What You See-Concave and Convex Mirrors

5+  How Far Can You See?

3+  Touch and Tell

4+  A Dim View-Colors in the Dark

3+  Eye Color Your Eyes

3+  Scope It Out:  Eye Helpers

4+  How Big Is Your Pupil?

4+  Spot the Creeper-Peripheral Vision

4+  I See You-Can You See Me?

5+  Phenakistoscope Creations:  Put the Bird in the Cage

4+  Winking and Blinking

Chapter Four-Listen Up:A World of Sounds

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4+  Highs and Lows

4+  Little Sir Echo

2+  Find the Clock-Ear Detectives

3+  Noise Blockers

2+  Using Our Ears at Home and School

4+  Tick, Tock,=How Close Is the Clock

4+  Water Sounds

3+  Auto Lotto

3+  Mystery Child of the Day

4+  High and Low, How Do You Know?

3+  Secret Sounds:  How Well Do You Remember?

3+  Dear Deer Ears

3+  Smart Ears

4+  Name That Tune

4+  One or Two or Three, I Can Hear as Well as I Can See

4+  Two or One, Which Is Better?

4+  Two Ears Are Not to Error-Circle Time Sound Play

Chapter Five-Your Nose Knows:  It’s More Than a Smeller Teller

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4+  Bet You Can’t Hold Your Breath Forever

4+  Nose Talk

3+  Zoo Noses

5+  Nose Shadows-Which Are You?  Turned-up or Turned-down

3+  Whose Nose Is Whose?

3+  How Smart Is Your Nose: Real vs. Artificial Smells

3+  Popcorn Hunt

3+  Scratch and Sniff

4+  Searching for hidden Treasure

5+  Mobile Odors

3+  Scented Necklaces

4+  Herb Detectives

3+  Mystery Noses-Nose Matching

5+  Molecules in My Nose

3+  Happy Holiday Noses

3+  Nature Scent Sacks

Chapter Six-Open Wide and Say “Ahh”: A Look Inside Your Mouth

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3+  Feelings Are Fine

3+  Tougue Roll

2+  Pucker Power

4+  Big Teeth, Little Teeth:  Coming and Going

5+  How Many Pearlies?

3+  Edible Toothbrushes

5+  For One or Many

3+  Plaque Attack

4+  Good Impressions

4+  Food Busters:  First Step in Digestion

4+  Upside-Down Swallow

3+  Spit

4+  Spitting Distance

3+  Umm, My Mouth’s Watering

3+  Tasty Pairs

4+  Working together-Tasters and Smellers

5+  Give Your Friend a Cold Game

5+  Tongue Taste Test

Chapter Seven-The Inside Story:  A Look at Guts and Stuff

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3+  To Catch A Breath

4+  How Big Is Your Chest?

3+  Breathing Fast, Breathing Slow

4+  What Is Your Lung Capacity?

4+  Hear a Heartbeat

4+  Heartbeat Listeners-The Advanced Model

2+  Over, Under, Beside, On Top-Where Is Your Heart?

2+  A Naval Experience:  Belly Button Prints

4+  Organ Finders

3+  Dogs Aren’t the Only Ones That Growl

3+  A Noisy Body Working

Chapter Eight-Head to Toe: Everything Goes Together

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4+  Monkey Listen, Mondey Do, and in a Mirror Too

3+  Owies

4+  Nit Picking

4+  Puppet Power

2+  Tracing Body Spaces

3+  Measure Me Growth Chart

4+  Denoting Family Demographics: Graphing Experiences

4+  Body Book

4+  Balancing Bodies

3+  Body Sculpting

4+  A Bare Bones Comparison

3+  A Joint Adventure

4+  A Bare Bones Comparison

3+  A Joint Adventure

4+  Go on a Bone Hunt

3+  Body Beat

5+  Find a Hot Spot

3+  Mirror Feelings

4+  Food Coverups

3+  My Favorite Things

3+  Footprints Are Forever

4+  Color Me Special

3+  Red, Brown, Blond, or Black, Kids Don’t have Grey Hair, That Is That

4+  A Very Hairy Collection

4+  Long Hair, Short Hair, Everywhere

3+  Simple Signs

4+  Who Comes Out on Top?