Science curriculum for preschoolers
ScienceStart! is the only curriculum for preschoolers that purposefully teaches children about the natural world, providing them with a rich knowledge base and developmentally appropriate use of science process skills.
Preschoolers are “developmentally primed” to learn about the natural/physical world.
ScienceStart! Comprehensive PreK Curriculum
A Comprehensive, All-Day/Every-Day curriculum for preschoolers, containing 220 Detailed Lesson Plans that use science investigations to support learning of language, literacy, mathematics, play, and art.
AnyTimeScience!
Fifty detailed lesson plans that add engaging science investigations to your current curriculum. Children follow a simple science cycle as they learn developmentally appropriate biology, chemistry, and physics. Investigations are in alignment with the K-3 standards presented in AAAS’s Benchmarks for Science Literacy and in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Teacher Training
Professional development is available and is customized to meet the customers’ needs.
With the support of the University of Rochester and the Department of Education, we implemented ScienceStart! for teachers across the nation.
ScienceStart! uses daily investigations of real world phenomena as the hub of detailed lesson plans that integrate language, literacy, mathematics, creative play and the arts. Lessons build on one another throughout the school year, with children engaging in age-appropriate investigations of optics, biology, chemistry and physics.
In 2000, the National Science Foundation awarded University of Rochester a 3-year grant to document the curriculum, to implement it in other settings with new teachers and to continue to assess its effectiveness in terms of children’s language and cognitive development. (Grant #ESI9911630; $500,000.)
Between 2000-2002 the A. L. Mailman Family Foundation and Rochester’s Child provided funding to develop and test science-based curriculum materials for Family Day Care Providers and the parents they served.
The U.S. Department of Education has provided funding to support development and implementation of this curriculum through two different programs.