Contents:

Foreword
Words You Can Use: Talking With Children About Science

Things You Will Need: Setting Up for Science

Science Safety: Build Good Habits Early

Resources

Finding The Things You Will Need

What To Do: Some Thoughts on Teaching Science

Young Children and Learning

Some Ideas About Planning

Want To Do More: Making Your Own Science Kits

On Your Own: Science Center Activities
2+  Minimuseums
2+  Pill Bug Palace
2+  The Great Air Machine Race
2+  The Main Attraction:  Magnet Boxes
3+  Dancing Droppers
3+  Fish—Up Close and Personal
3+  Oh I Seed You
3+  Shadow Box
3+  Shake, Shake, Shake
3+  Touchy Feely Box
4+  Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Everyone’s a Star
4+  Cling to Me
4+  Put a Rock to Bed
4+  Put Them in a Row
4+  Real Puzzles
4+  Seed Power
4+  Texture Collage:  Take Your Fingers for a Walk
5+  Sound Traveler 

Building With Science: Construction and Measurement
2+  Balancing Toys
2+  Pulley into line
3+  Can I Make a Shape?
3+  Newspaper Construction
3+  Rampin’ It
4+  Call Me
4+  Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
5+  Cave in a Box
5+  Dinosaur Den
5+  Turning Mud Pies into Houses
5+  Where Do You Hide a Dinosaur?

Science For a Crowd: Circle Time Activities
2+  Rainbow in a Jar
3+  Bags of Energy
3+  Thunk or Ding
3+  What’s That Sound?
4+  Lightning & Thunder, Wow It’s Scary
4+  Mushy, Slushy, Melty Snow
4+  Ticket to the Moon
4+  Weather or Not I should Wear it
4+  What’s the Color of the Day
4+  Zero and Counting
5+  Dino Tongue Twister
5+  I’ve Got a Hunch, Seed
5+  Let there Be Light
5+  Shadow, Shadow on the Wall

Paints and Prints: Scientific Art
2+  Color My Petals

2+  Eye Dropper Art

2+  Rainbow Rain

2+  Rainbow Stew

3+  Beat a Leaf

3+  Paper Chromatography

3+  Weather Art

3+  Weaving Nature’s Colors

3+  Put the Sunny Side Up

4+  Beans in a Jar

4+  Fingerprints:  No Two Alike

4+  Magical Magnet Masterpieces

4+  Rough and Smooth

Wet and Messy: Science for a Special Place
2+  Magic Matter
2+  The Dunking Raisins
3+  Drying Race
3+  Egg Carton Rainbows
3+  Floaters and Sinkers
3+  I’, Forever Blowing Bubbles
3+  Let’s Get Soaked
3+  Pendulum Patterns in the Sand
3+  Shine Your Pennies
4+  Grow a Rock
+  Thermometer Play
4+  Soak It to Me
5+  Fill It Up:  A Question of Volume
5+  Raincycle

Science To Grow On: Health and Nutrition
3+ Body Game
3+  Good and Juicy
3+  Little Bitty Butter Beaters
3+  Orange You Glad They’re Not All Alike?
3+  Ouchie
3+  Sprouts
4+  Keep It Cool
4+  Listen to the Sounds of the Body
4+  My, How You Have Grown!
4+  Sing Along
5+  Bones Builders:  Skeleton Creators
5+  Robots Have Bodies Too
5+  Snack Graphing
5+  The Great Brush Off

Learning About Nature: Outdoor Science

3+  Ant E Social

3+  Collect a Mural

3+  Shirts in the Sun

3+  Teeny, Tiny Tweezer Trek

3+  Twig Race

4+  How Many Colors Are Green?

4+  Leaf Catchers

4+  Outdoor Hunt and Find

4+  Puddle Walk

4+  Your Own Animal Book

5+  Rain Measures

5+  Warble, Cheep or Tweet:  Name That Tune

Acting Out Science in a Big Way: Creativity and Movement
3+  Dance a Garden
3+  Dino Body Match!
3+  Leaf Hunt Relay
3+  Sensitive Toes
3+  Space Helmets
4+  Color Makers
4+  Marching of the Seasons
4+  Stepping Out, Hop, Skip Jump.
4+  The Purr-fect Smell
4+  Weather Predictors
5+  Flashlight Tag
5+  The Shape and Hop Game

Hodge-Podge
Tornado in a Jar
Ocean in a Jar
Critter Cage
Hanger Sorter
The Best Resource Sources