Deluxe STEM Library Set

In 2013 Redleaf Press was first to market bringing STEM to the early childhood field, and in that time our library in the math and sciences category has expanded through ages and environments winning multiple awards. Included is everything you need for curriculum, activities, and examples of integration across your entire program. Save over 20% when you get the expansive library as a complete collection.

More Than Counting, Standards Edition

Make learning count with activities and games that reflect early learning standards from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Combining new activities and favorites from bestselling More Than Counting and Much More Than Counting by the same author team, this edition provides 124 math lessons for young children. Activities are organized by learning standard—number sense and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement and data analysis, and probability. A materials list, modifications for special needs, and a connection to early learning standards are provided for each activity.

304 pages

Awards

Teaching STEM Outdoors

Nurture young children’s innate tendencies toward exploration, sensory stimulation, and STEM learning when you connect outdoor learning with STEM curriculum. Discover the developmental benefits of outdoor learning and how the rich diversity of settings and materials in nature gives rise to questions and inquiry for deeper learning.

Full of activities, examples, and resources to take the fun of STEM outside, this book will help teachers articulate connections between nature play, outdoor experiences, and STEM learning with young children. Use STEM and nature-based learning to foster children’s curiosity and exploration of the world.

200 pages

Baby Steps to STEM

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Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover—making the earliest years a perfect time to begin teaching the foundations of STEM. This book explores what science, technology, engineering, and math education looks like for this age group, and why it is so vital for all children to develop STEM knowledge.

Expand your understanding of STEM to lay the foundation for children to develop skills in critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. This book supplies 60 play-based, developmentally appropriate activities for introducing STEM. All activities include extensions, inquiry questions, and tips on how to help parents strengthen children’s learning at home.

181 pages

Awards

More Than Magnets, Standards Edition

Take the uncertainty out of teaching science to young children with this comprehensive curriculum framework that aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards. Enjoy over 100 interactive play-based activities that encourage children to explore their world. Each of these hands-on activities includes background scientific information for teachers, a guide to implementation, and children’s typical responses.

This new edition addresses the standards related to each activity and includes two new life science chapters, one on plants and one on animals.

388 pages

Inspiring Young Minds

Learn to use inquiry-based practice to inspire young minds through science. This book gives educators a solid guide for using research-based principles of inquiry to help children explore their world. With real-life examples and information on facilitating and guiding children, you will be able to engage and maximize STEM learning.

Web content and reproducible lesson plans make it easy to begin using inquiry-based instruction. Detailed case studies and accounts of conversations with children about science will help you understand different methods and tools. Enrich and inspire young minds with inquiry-based instruction.

200 pages

Robotics for Young Children

Give young children their start to the building, programming, and coding of robots through playful, developmentally appropriate activities. This user-friendly and accessible book gives teachers great ideas for engaging young children with 100 exciting, hands-on computer science and engineering activities.

Many early childhood professionals are unfamiliar with computer science, robotics, and engineering concepts. The book can be easily included in a developmentally appropriate curriculum and offers a balance of adult-facilitated and child-centered activities.

148 pages

STEAM Concepts for Infants and Toddlers

STEAM’s goal is to support the native creativity and innovation that all children possess. Infants and toddlers have a naturally curious mindset. Yet, there is little literature for educators to sufficiently learn more about how to use STEAM concepts in their practice with infants and toddlers. This book uses illustrated vignettes to narrate stories of infant and toddler STEAM concept explorations and bring out new possibilities for caregivers to uncover within their own environments.

STEAM Concepts for Infants and Toddlers presents an inquiry stance for caregivers to consider their role and values that they hold in connection to STEAM concepts. People have different views around how young children should be exposed to STEAM concepts and why. This book gives a space for you to reflect upon their own experiences and views before engaging with young children’s learning around STEAM concepts, allowing you to identify areas that are more or less familiar with. This self-reflection will help you take a risk and try something new.

184 pages

Awards

Teaching STEM Literacy

Teaching STEM Literacy is comprised of ready-made, open-ended lessons reviewed and tested by teachers, which help educators integrate STEM learning into the early childhood classroom. Lessons are linked to the Next Generation Science Standards, and encourage creative ideas for three-dimensional STEM learning that are developmentally appropriate and exemplified through children's literature.

The three-dimensional STEM learning—content, concepts, and practices—comes in twelve, ready-made open-ended teaching units that make it easy to teach science and inquiry to young children. This book uses the 5E framework (engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation) to cultivate children's skills of observation, questioning, and data collection by combining discovery, problem solving, and engineering solutions to authentic questions that young children might ask.

178 pages

Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environments

What does it mean to inquire? Grownups would say it means to question, to search for information, or to finding out about a topic of interest. For children in an early childhood classroom, the definition is no different. From the time of their birth, children want to know how the world works and actively seek out information. How educators respond to their questions is what this book is all about.

Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environments takes an in-depth look at children’s inquiry. What does inquiry look like in early childhood settings? How does the environment affect children’s inquiries and teachers’ thought processes? Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environments examines inquiry in all its facets, including environments that support relationships, that create a culture of risk-taking in our thinking, that support teachers as well as children, that include families, that use documentation as a way of thinking about our work, and of course, the physical environment and all the objects and spaces within it. Throughout, stories about environments and approaches to inquiry from around the world are included as examples.

168 pages

Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children

In Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children award-winning educator Vicki Carper Bartolini offersoffers practical suggestions and resources to re-envision your early learning environment with a focus on STEM. Using the Reggio Emilia lens that honors the right of children to have a wondrous learning environment, Carper Bartolini guides the reader to consider children's competencies as they collaboratively engage in STEM investigations.

Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children inspires and gives you immediate steps to take in your own space. The book includes:

• Case studies of programs that have rethought their STEM environments
• Lessons learned from Reggio Emilia
• Guidance on use of time and space
• Materials and themes
• Resources for setting up a Reggio-Inspired STEM environment

Starting one step at a time you can re-imagine a playful, inquiry-based STEM learning environment that invites all children to experience wonderous explorations.

88 pages.

Young Architects at Play

When children build with blocks, they are both literally and figuratively constructing their knowledge of the world. When we see children's construction play through the lens of architecture, we are able to support and extend children's learning on all four STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering, and math. Young Architects at Play is a guide for both teachers and parents and includes a diverse variety of activities and resources. More than 20 projects involve both traditional classroom materials like unit blocks as well as natural materials, found objects, cardboard, and authentic woodworking materials.

Throughout the book, Ann Gadzikowski makes meaningful connections between STEM learning and the power of stories, both the children's own narratives as well as the rich diversity of stories and illustrations from children's literature.

144 pages

Teach STEM in the Early Years, 2nd Edition

Stimulate and engage children's thinking as you integrate STEM experiences throughout your early childhood program. These engaging, developmentally appropriate activities maximize children's learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Each experience combines at least two STEM disciplines and incorporates materials and situations that are interesting and meaningful to children while ensuring educators understand the science concepts underpinning the activity.

As researchers and educators increasingly recognize how critical early childhood mathematics and science learning is in laying the foundation for children’s later STEM education, this second edition of Teaching STEM in the Early Years is a much-needed resource for every early childhood classroom. It will encourage you to think differently about STEM education, and you will see how easy it is to accommodate curriculum goals and learning standards in math and science activities. This edition provides updated research and references and adds

• Ideas for incorporating literacy with STEM activities, including children’s book recommendations
• STREAM It segments that incorporate reading and art into STEM with art and music extension to activities
• Suggestions for varying the difficulty of activities for a variety of learners

Age Focus: 3–6. Softbound, 264 pgs.