Math and Science Curriculum for Young Children

[Wakim, Suzanne]

Greetings all!

 

One of our instructors put together the following book for “Math and Science Curriculum for Young Children”.

 

https://butteedu-my.sharepoint.com/personal/wakimsu_butte_edu/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?slrid=ada97c9e%2D70d7%2D6000%2D20af%2Dc259867d247b&id=%2Fpersonal%2Fwakimsu%5Fbutte%5Fedu%2FDocuments%2FMath%20and%20Science%20Curriculum%20for%20Young%20Children&FolderCTID=0x012000D1EBF22B4687A54E91438D7A99E19EEF

 

This may have already been sent (I can’t remember), so apologies if you already have it.  Also, please let me know if the link doesn’t work.  OneDrive is wonky sometimes.

 

 

Let me know if you have any questions or if there’s anything I can do to help.

 

Suzanne Wakim

 

SLO (Student Learning Outcomes) Coordinator

DE (Distance Education) Coordinator

OER (Open Educational Resources) Coordinator

Biology Faculty

Butte Community College

 

[Wakim, Suzanne]

Hey all!

 

That link doesn’t work.  Please use this one instead: https://butteedu-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/wakimsu_butte_edu/ErN39inZprhNorZZjlaMSCsBRR75W1GaOWUEyGnbmyYJRw?e=Kvhth6

[amanda taintor]

A colleague (Kendra Mull) takes the credit for finding this repository of lesson plans. Licensed CCBY!

https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/lesson-plans-for-life/

[Tanessa Sanchez]

Here are a few more wonderful resources:

• The Lawrence Hall of Science: Early Learning in Math and Science (ELMS)
• Boston Children's Museum: STEM Sprouts Teaching Guide

Enjoy!!

Tanessa Sanchez

[Jennifer Paris]

Hostos Community College shared this with to post: 

EDU 111 Teaching Math and Science to Young Children:  

http://guides.hostos.cuny.edu/edu111

[Jennifer Paris]

Here are two websites that are full of resources that you can use when teaching math, science, STEM, etc.:

Standford's DREME Project (Development and Research in Early Math Education)

Full course content through  Early Learning in Math and Science (ELMS) Undergraduate Course in Teacher Preparation

[amandata...@gmail.com]

Here is an excellent resource for science education! It's produced by an NSF grant so it should be free to use for education. I'm still looking for specific copyright information. 

Astronomical Society of the Pacific : EDUCATION & OUTREACH : Early Learners : Early Learners (astrosociety.org)

[Serhad İletir]

I do not know if it is related to the Spacebar Counter, used at primary schools for improving counting skills. 

[Jennifer Paris]

Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood

Author: Janet Stramel

License: Creative Commons Attribution

From Intro:

Welcome to Early Childhood Mathematics! This course satisfies the Early Childhood Unified requirements in the state of Kansas for a teaching license Birth to Grade 3.

Most people agree that early childhood includes the period from infancy until eight years of age, characterized by rapid and complex growth in physical, cognitive, and social domains. Math skills must be taught in early childhood. Children should be provided a foundation to succeed in elementary school and beyond. Teachers should focus lessons in early childhood around the basic skills that will help to advance future mathematics. From preschool to the end of elementary school, children are setting the foundation for future life skills.

Learning mathematics is “a ‘natural’ and developmentally appropriate activity for young children” (Ginsberg, Lee, and Boyd, 2008). Through their everyday interactions with the world, many children develop informal concepts about space, quantity, size, patterns, and operations. Unfortunately, not all children have the same opportunities to build these informal and foundational concepts of mathematics in their day-to-day lives (Sherman-LeVos, 2010).

Young children are naturally curious, and the best time to begin mathematics is at a time while the young child’s brain is rapidly developing. Mathematics in early childhood helps children develop critical thinking and reasoning skills early on and it’s the key to the foundation for success in their formal schooling years.

Table of Contents

1. Main Body

   1. The Importance of Early Childhood Mathematics

   2. Mathematics Milestones

   3. Mathematics in Preschool

   4. Mathematics Standards

   5. Teaching Mathematics Through Problem Solving

   6. Early Number Concepts and Number Sense

   7. Whole Number Place Value

   8. Whole Number Computation

   9. Early Fraction Concepts

   10. Geometry and Measurement

   11. Algebraic Thinking

   12. Data and Data Analysis

   13. Glossary

2. Appendix

3. References

[Jennifer Paris]

Teaching Early and Elementary STEM

By Alissa A. Lange, Laura Robertson, Jamie Price, & Amie Craven

East Tennessee State University

VERSION: JUNE 7, 2021

An open-access textbook for early childhood and elementary education pre-service courses focused on STEM education.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC)

  

[Jennifer Paris]

Young Mathematicians

A Research Program at the Education Development Center

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

[Jennifer Paris]

Canvas Commons Course 

ECED 202 DE - Math and Science in ECE – Camacho (Spring 2023) by Dara Camacho from Skagit Valley College

If you are logged into Canvas the link will take you to the resource. If you do not have Canvas, you can create a Free for Teachers (FFT) account that will allow you to access the courses mentioned below. You do that with your institutional email address at https://www.instructure.com/canvas/try-canvas.