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Strike Up the Band!
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Strike Up the Band

Encourage children to invent an instrument.

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Cate Heroman
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Weaving Wonders!
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Weaving Wonders

Invite children to weave with a variety of materials, even challenging them to create their own looms.

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Cate Heroman
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Gizmos Galore!
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Gizmos Galore

Challenge children to take an everyday object and make it better.

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Cate Heroman
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Using Wood as a Medium

Children at a museum-based program use wood as a tool for exploration and creativity.

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Natalie Williams, Erika Cantin
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

The Birdfeeder Project

Children at a Maine early learning center extend their learning about birds to include building birdfeeders.

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Sessa Salas, Kelley Duffelmeyer, Kristy Grover
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Feature Teacher: Beulah Wiggins

Meet Beulah Wiggins, the STEAM coach at the Women's League Child Development Center in Connecticut.
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Teaching Young Children
January 6, 2025

Message from Michelle

The spirit of inquiry, knowledge development, hands-on learning, and intentional teaching shines through the articles in this issue.

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Michelle Kang
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teaching young children, volume 18 number 2
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Teaching Young Children
Vol. 18, No. 2
January 6, 2025

Winter 2025

Equitable STEM Learning in Preschool and Kindergarten
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
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Authentic Identity Work in a Culture of Self-Reflection

NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.

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Authored by: 
Vaidehi Desai, Margaret Oliver
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