Earlybird Start Up Science 1,2,3,4 contains 116 lessons to introduce young children to early concepts in science. Each lesson is one page and includes a brief reading and activity. Since these are designed with younger children in mind, the readings are simple but teach foundational principles well. You may want to add a quality children’s science encyclopedia for more content, depending on the age and interest of your child (or children). The lessons are flexible to meet the needs of younger learners. If you do three lessons each week, the books will be completed in roughly one year. Families with younger children may choose to do lessons less frequently and extend the series over a couple of years. You pick the best option for your family! Answers are included in the back of each book. Books are also available separately. This is a great option for families wanting to introduce science to young children without wanting to overwhelm their young learner.
Earlybird Start Up Science 1, 2, 3 and 4
Product Overview
- Provides 116 lessons that introduce children to early concepts in life science, physical science, chemistry, and earth science
- Each lesson is one page with a short reading and simple activity
- Activities vary and may be brief written exercises or hands-on experiments
Description
Earlybird Start Up Science is a series of four books for Grades 1 and 2. This series opens the door to the challenging world of scientific discovery and introduces young learners to scientific concepts. Simple explanations of concepts are charmingly illustrated and reinforced in the interesting activities and experiments that follow. The books, each with 29 exercises, are filled with stimulating facts and activities covering everything from daily life to satellites and dinosaurs.
There are no teacher’s guides for this series. Answers are provided at the back of each book. Earlybird Start Up Science is ideal for both classroom and home use.
Brought to us from the same publisher as Primary Mathematics, the colorful Earlybird Start Up Science series introduces early concepts in life science, physical science, chemistry, and earth science to the very young. Each book focuses on one of these sciences and contains 29 lessons and an answer key. Each page of the book focuses on a different topic and presents a short informational segment, followed by questions or a hands-on activity. The material is presented in its simplest form, and most often the questions repeated at the end simply ask the student what was discussed at the top of the page, although in some cases, it might be helpful to have read a little more material on the subject as well. The range of subjects is pretty impressive, including animal habitats, parts of the ear and eye, how seeds sprout, electromagnets, conductors, circuits, mixing colors, evaporation, how sound is made, sinking or floating, seasons, the solar system, the Milky Way, constellations, meteors, food chains, and more. As an example of a lesson, one lesson in Book 3 features a short paragraph on the properties of some common materials, followed by a blank chart. The students must decide whether some other common materials such as wood, glass, plastic, rubber, and more, are hard, if they can be bent, if they last a long time, and if they are attracted to a magnet. After that activity, several common materials are listed, and the student must match these to the item or construction it can be used to make. All activities are generously illustrated with friendly, cartoon-like animals and objects, and altogether the books have a “fun” and relaxed look about them, even though the concepts are well-presented and a little more serious than I’ve seen in other early elementary science programs. Answers are included. Please note, some supplies may be hard to find in the U.S., although it would be fairly easy to swap out the supply or activity. Inexpensive and easy-to-use, these books could easily make up a complete science curriculum for the early grades, although you may want to supplement with a little more reading, especially with interesting, related library books to broaden their horizons a little more. Evolutionary dating. Available individually or in a convenient set.- Jess
| Product Format: | Product Bundle |
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| Grades: | 1-2 |
| Brand: | Rainbow Resource Center |