NSTA's New Book A Head Start on Science Encourages Children's Natural Curiosity

Jun 04, 09:29 AM

Current Headlines: To: BOOK EDITORS

Contact: Kim Leslie of NSTA, +1-703-312-9285, kleslie@nsta.org

ARLINGTON, Va., June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the youngest scientists, the whole wide world can be a laboratory for learning. New from the National Science Teachers Association, the teaching guide A Head Start on Science, for preschool-second grade teachers offers 89 hands-on science activities that encourage the natural curiosity of children.

The activities are grouped into seven stimulating topic areas: the senses, weather, physical science, critters, water and water mixtures, seeds, and nature walks.

Educators will find this collection unusually easy to use. With a clear background and materials list, A Head Start on Science provides step-by-step procedures and suggests questions to pose to children. Each activity ends with a reproducible Family Science Connection -- in both English and Spanish -- to send home so the whole family can share a learning experience.

Field-tested by over a thousand Head Start teachers for more than ten years, A Head Start on Science builds a science foundation for the youngest learners. Thanks to a focus on the fun of exploration and discovery, children probably won't be the only ones who find these activities irresistible. As Editor Bill Ritz writes in the introduction, "We hope your own sense of wonder will be heightened as you observe children and as their curiosity leads them to answer their own questions about everything they see, hear, smell, and touch."

As with most NSTA Press titles, you can browse sample pages of this new title free at the NSTA Science Store Website at http:// store.nsta.org/.

For additional information or to purchase A Head Start on Science: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder, and other books from NSTA Press, visit the NSTA Science Store at http://www.nsta.org/ pressnew. To order by phone, call 800- 277-5300 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT weekdays. Outside the United States and Canada, call 301- 638-0200. The 400-page book is priced at $26.95 and discount- priced for NSTA members at $21.56. (Stock # PB208X, ISBN # 978-1-93353-102- 1).

SOURCE National Science Teachers Association

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