Education managers, program directors, and professional development providers can gain an overview of the content, format, and strategies reflected in the OHS Science Webcast Series. They can use the script as a resource as they develop training materials to introduce teaching teams to the why’s and how’s of doing science during the early years.

Key messages about science in the early years accompany candid photos of young children, including infants and toddlers, engaged in doing science. Education managers, professional development providers, and technical assistance professionals can use these as a resource to create training materials to help Head Start and Early Head Start teaching teams promote science for ALL young learners.

• Select here for the PowerPoint Presentation [PDF, 6.71MB]
• Select here for the Script [PDF, 1.35MB]
• Select here for the Viewer's Guide [PDF, 83KB]
• Select here to view the archived Webcast

Domain 4:  Science

Domain 4 of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework identifies domain elements and indicators that describe long-term learning goals in science for children ages three-to-five years old. Teachers learn about effective classroom strategies that promote the development of scientific knowledge in young children. Scientific skills and methods provide children with tools that help make sense of the world around them. Additional strategies focus on children practicing and refining skills used in the inquiry/discovery approach to learning. Full text»

Domain 7:  Approaches to Learning

Research on school readiness indicates that children's approaches to learning are powerful predictors of their later success in school. Teachers build children's approaches to learning throughout the program day and across all kinds of planned and spontaneous experiences. Resources include strategies that promote and stimulate learning situations for children's development. Full text»

Domain 2: Literacy

Domain 2 of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework identifies domain elements and indicators that describe long-term learning goals in literacy for children ages-three-to-five-years old. Teaching teams realize that language and literacy are interrelated. Literacy includes the domain elements of phonological awareness, book knowledge and appreciation, print awareness and concepts, early writing, and alphabet knowledge. Teachers learn about effective strategies that help children acquire necessary skills that promote the development of successful readers and writers. Full text»

EHS Resources

Does Early Head Start Support Math and Science Development with Infants and Toddlers? Early Head Start Tip Sheet 29