Nature Education with Young Children is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resourcethat blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book's guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for effective and transformative nature education: ?The power and value of equity and access to nature education?Effective teaching encompasses child development domains and integrates ECE curriculum ?Children learn best through inquiry-based and child-centered teaching?Powerful teaching is founded upon teacher inquiry and reflection. Implementing nature study is one critical way that educators can integrate more science learning across the ECE curriculum and do so in an active, discovery-based manner.Nature Education with Young Childrenstrives for an American version of what the Reggio Emilia educators do so well: creating a seamless integration of science concepts into the daily intellectual investigations that occur in classrooms everywhere.

This is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book's guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for effective and transformative nature education.

"Nature Education with Young Children ... is a great teacher resource. In the book, eleven authors share their experiences and practical tips on educating in an active, discovery-based fashion. ... Helpful photos and commentaries in the book make it easy for readers to grasp how to implement nature study in an early childhood education curriculum." -Green Teacher