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SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

Be Friends With a Tree Activity

Building Sample Activity

Collecting and Sorting Sample Activity

Counting and Comparing Activity

Dominoes Activity

Exploring a Balance Activity

Getting to Know a Tree Family Activity

Hamster Hunt Family Activity

Hamster Hunt Group Activity

Inside Shadows Family Activity

Inside Shadows Group Activity

Mother Goose Asks “Why?” Sample Activity

Mother Goose Cares About Math & Science Sample Activity

Mother Goose Meets Mother Nature Sample Activity

Number Patterns Sample Activity

Patterns and Relationships Everywhere Sample Activity

Recognizing Same and Different Sample Activity

Shadows Sample Activity

Shape Walk Group Activity

Sink and Float Family Activity

Sink and Float Group Activity

Sorting a Collection Activity

Sorting Animals Group Activity

Sorting the Animals Family Activity

The Shape of Art Activity

What's My Rule? Family Activity

What's the BIG Idea? Building/Construction Activities

What's the Rule? Family Activity

What's the Rule? Group Activity

You Can Count on Mother Goose Sample Activity

 

Here are some articles on Math and Science from Mother Goose Programs:

Asking Good Mathematics and Science Questions

Building and Construction: Math and Science Skills and Concepts

Exploring Mathematics Everyday With Your Child

Exploring Science Everyday With Your Child

How Do Young Children Learn?

Juanita Copley's Presentation

Manual for Trainers: Mother Goose Cares About Math and Science

Manual for Trainers: Mother Goose Family Programs

Math & Science Learning: Building

Math & Science Learning: Collecting and Sorting

Math & Science Learning: Comparing and Measuring

Math & Science Learning: Patterns and Relationships

Math & Science Learning: Recognizing Same and Different

Math & Science Learning: Sequences

Math & Science Learning: Sound

Mathematics Standards

Mother Goose Asks “Why?” Program Guide Table of Contents

Mother Goose Cares About Math & Science Guide Table of Contents

Mother Goose Meets Mother Nature Program Guide Table of Contents

Movement Patterns

Number Patterns

Open-Ended Questions and Why They’re Important

Patterns and Relationships Everywhere

Professionals: Exploring Growth and Change Everyday With Childr

Professionals: Exploring Mathematics Everyday With Children

Professionals: Exploring Science Everyday With Children

Professionals: Exploring the Senses Everyday With Children

Professionals: Problem Solving Everyday With Children

Research & Evaluation: Mother Goose Programs 2004

Research & Evaluation: Mother Goose Programs 2005

Research & Evaluation: What's the BIG Idea? Conference December

Research & Evaluation: What's the BIG Idea? Evaluation 2006

Research & Evaluation: What's the BIG Idea? Evaluation 2007

Research & Evaluation: What's the BIG Idea? Summary 2006

Research and Evaluation: Are Mother Goose Programs Effective?

Science Standards

Shadows

Steve Jenkins' Red Clover Presentation

Three-credit Mother Goose Programs Course

Tips on Reading to Children

What's the BIG Idea? 2007 Summer Reading Program Guide-PDF Forma

What's the BIG Idea? 2008 Summer Reading Program Guide-PDF Forma

What's the BIG Idea? Summer Reading Program Guide-PDF Format

Why Are Standards Important?

Why is Reading to a Child Important?

Why Use Picture Books to Introduce Math and Science?

You Can Count on Mother Goose Program Guide Table of Contents

 

Other Math and Science resources we hope you will find helpful:

Head Start Outcomes Framework

Karen Lind, Science in Early Childhood: Developing and Acquiring Fundamental Concepts and Skills, AAAS

Science in the Preschool Classroom, NAEYC

Juanita Copley and Yolanda Padron, Fostering High Quality (Math and Science) Programs, AAAS

Susan A. Gelman, Concept Development in Preschool Children, AAAS

Guiding Children's Mathematical Learning

Promoting the Development of Scientific Thinking, Early Childhood News

 

 

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