Science and Stories Kits combine two of young children’s favorite experiences: doing hands-on science and being read to.
Hands-on science powers children’s learning by tapping into their motivation to learn about their everyday world. Science and Stories Kits contain all the materials you need to involve your child in hands-on exploration.
Science inquiry encourages children’s questions and helps them find answers.
Science encourages a “trial and error” approach that lets children learn without worrying about being “wrong.”
Hands-on science appeals to children across a wide range of ages and abilities. Because they can do the activities in many ways, children find the level of challenge that motivates them.
One of the best ways to help your children learn new vocabulary is to have conversations with them as they do the science activities.
Science and Stories Kits contain picture books that support more learning. As you read together, you can talk about what you learned from the activities.
Science and Stories Kits bring you a powerful learning combination of first hand explorations of the natural world, a picture book to extend your child’s discoveries, and an activity guide that tells you how to use questions and conversation to foster literacy and math.
Conversation is the best language teacher! Science and Stories Activity Guides suggest vocabulary to use and questions to ask as you do the activities together. Reading the picture book provides additional opportunities to use science vocabulary. The activity guide has suggestions for ways to read the stories to support learning literacy and language.
Science and Stories Kits support using writing as a scientific tool. Children use lab sheets to record data, describe observations in a journal, and create and label diagrams.
Children practice science process skills as they carry out activities such as comparing the size and shapes of puddles as water evaporates, or classifying objects into categories of transparent, translucent and opaque.
