![]() ![]() ![]() Our greatest superpower as early childhood educators is our ability to take a huge complex concept and effectively break it down to its foundation and teach that. We need to stop thinking about STEM in its fully developed form and remember we don’t teach Shakespeare to preschoolers, but we do teach literacy. We aren’t asking you to teach the periodic table or do chemistry experiments with four-year-olds. Here’s the thing, STEM in ECE is not the image you probably have in your head right now. You may be wondering, and maybe you always have, why we teach such complex things to tiny little humans. You probably already know this but let me go all the way back to the basics STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. ![]() That’s when I decided to gather up what has worked for me and my students, ask teachers what their pain points are, and look at what the research supports regarding why and how to teach STEM to preschoolers.īefore we get into the strategies for teaching STEM to preschoolers, let’s define what it is and why we should make time for it every day in our preschool classrooms. When I went to look at what resources were easily accessible for early educators, it was pretty sparse there are a lot of pre-packaged preschool STEM curricula for sale and ideas for amazing one-off experiments, but not a lot of solid strategies to make STEM part of our preschool classrooms daily. Still, we haven’t been doing a great job training early childhood educators because I get many questions about how to teach STEM to preschoolers. For years now, we have been hearing about the importance of STEM education for students of all ages. ![]()
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