Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Field trip to either Children's Museum or OMSI.

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

• Describe math and science content with infants through preschool-age children.
• Create appropriate experiences and research-based teaching for mathematical and scientific concepts, methods, and language for indoor and outdoor classrooms for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
• Å·ÖÞ±­¾öÈü¾º²Âapp_Å·ÖÞ±­×ãÇòÍø-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø curricular examples to encourage children’s curiosity, imagination, flexibility, inventiveness, and persistence.
• Encourage preschool children to ask questions, conduct investigations, collect data, and look for answers.
• Provide math and science opportunities and investigations relevant to infant and toddler development.
• Å·ÖÞ±­¾öÈü¾º²Âapp_Å·ÖÞ±­×ãÇòÍø-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø math curriculum which includes integrating the knowledge of social, emotional, physical, cognitive, language development, developmentally and culturally appropriate pedagogy.
• Use child-centered and project-based learning relevant to infants, toddlers and preschool age children.

Individual reading, PowerPoint presentations, videos, case study, small and large groups, in-class presentations  online activity plans, documentation boards field tip to  Children's Museum and OMSI and Teacher Action Research,parent newsletter focused and science and math, connecting math and science to social, cognitive, emotional, physical, language development

Action Teacher Research (defining a problem, developing questions, gather, analyzing and interpret data, and take action) connected to the course outcomes.

• Reflective Teaching
• Constructivist theory
• Mathematical and science content for infants through preschool age
• Identify community and online resources for math and science
• Define developmentally and culturally appropriate
• Research-based teaching for mathematical and scientific concepts, methods, and language for indoor and outdoor classrooms.
• Learning invitations ("provocations)
• Å·ÖÞ±­¾öÈü¾º²Âapp_Å·ÖÞ±­×ãÇòÍø-Ͷע|¹ÙÍø children’s curiosity, imagination, flexibility, inventiveness, and persistence
• Prepares children to ask questions, conduct investigations, collect data, and look for answers
• Integrate knowledge of social, emotional, physical, cognitive, language development.
• Documenting children's learning link to math and science concepts, methods and language