Smart Start: STEM, Grade PreK

簡介：Hands-on STEM Activities and Critical Thinking Skills
系列分類：Smart Start
出版社：Evan Moor Educational Publishers
尺寸：21.1 x 27.4 公分(cm)
規格：平裝書(paperback)
頁數：128頁(pages)
適讀年齡：4歲以上

?預覽完整內頁：Smart Start: STEM, Grade PreK

Engage your child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills. The STEM challenges and activities encourage your child to think creatively and explore different ideas to solve problems. Parents act as facilitators, guiding their children through the problem-solving process.

Each unit includes stories and practice pages that help children understand science concepts and provide a foundation for completing each STEM challenge. A STEM journal activity helps guide children through the engineering design process: plan, create, test, and record.   
 
Topics within each STEM challenge target earth, life, and physical science. Each unit covers a specific scientific concept and includes:

• Science Story: Introduces each science concept
• Practice Activities: Support children’s understanding
• STEM Story: Fictional story with a problem to solve
• STEM Challenge: Hands-on activity to solve a problem
• STEM Journal: Provides a planning outline to help complete the challenge activity

Includes answer key.
 
PreK STEM skills include:

• Visual discrimination
• Fine motor skills
• Comparisons
• Letter formation
• Sequencing

PreK activities incorporate scientific concepts such as:
 
Physical science

• Shapes and sizes
• Magnets
• Floating/sinking

Life science

• Animals
• Plants
• People grow and change

Earth science

• Rocks
• Weather
• Air

Use Smart Start: STEM for enrichment at home and help your child develop lifelong critical thinking skills.