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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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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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Vaidehi Desai, Margaret Oliver
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The Pedagogical Narrative as a Form of Teacher Research

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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Barbara Henderson, Robyn Brookshire, Ron Grady, Isauro M. Escamilla, Angela Aquilizan, Megina Baker, Andrew J. Stremmel
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squirrel proof bird feeder activity
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2024

Squirrel-Proof Birdfeeder

Inspire children to build birdfeeders and figure out how to keep squirrels at bay.
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build a fort activity
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2024

Build a Fort

Guide children to build a fort that accommodates at least two people. Extend the challenge by encouraging working features.
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box it activity
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Teaching Young Children
October 1, 2024

Box It!

Encourage children to make something different from a box or to use a box as the basis for a game.
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