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DESCRIPTION:
You don't have to be Einstein to teach math or Picasso to get children excited about
art. Young children learn math and science concepts everyday as they play and
explore the world around them. Find out effective ways to make children's discoveries
come alive through visual, hands-on, sensory art experiences.
OBJECTIVES/LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Identify the learning processes of the young child as it relates to science and
mathematical concepts
- Plan how to align math and science activities with the content standards
- Demonstrate methods, materials, resources, practices, and procedures of teaching
math and science in early childhood settings.
BENEFIT TO CONFEREES & CHILDREN:
Children are naturally curious--science and math foster that curiosity. Teachers need to
capitalize on the child's innate curiosity as they listen to their ideas and observe what
they are exploring in their play. Math and science are everywhere in the classroom. As
early childhood teachers, we need to learn to seize these teaching and learning
opportunities, and to let children know that you value their discoveries and ideas by
sharing them with other children and adults.
In addition to acting on children's discoveries, there are many ways you can promote
math and science skill development in your learning centers. As children engage in the
activities, you'll discover that math and science activities foster what they learn
(content knowledge) and how they learn it (process skills).
SUMMARY:
The test-driven practices currently reemerging produce a widespread use of
inappropriate instructional practices with young children. Mathematics for preschoolers
has been taught as "pre-math," apparently under the assumption that math learning
begins only with addition and subtraction in the primary grades. It has also been taught
in both preschool and in the primary grades as rote memory material using abstract
paper and pencil activities. Science has been largely ignored with the excuse that
teaching "the basics" precluded allowing time for science. This workshop is designed to
counteract these developments and bring to the attention of the early childhood
educator the interrelatedness of math and science and the necessity of providing
young children with opportunities to explore concretely these domains of early concept
learning. Further integration will be stressed with learning across the curriculum in all
learning centers or interest areas of the classroom; dramatic play, blocks, music and
movement, cooking, art, and the sensory or sand and water table.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
Wireless lavaliere microphone (if large group)
FORMAT:
Lecture/ Demonstration
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