The website of the wonderful science-based tv show Peep and the Big Wide World has resources specifically for parents, family child care providers, and classroom teachers. http://peepandthebigwideworld.com/en/ (English) http://peepandthebigwideworld.com/es/ (Spanish)
Science resources from the National Association for the Education of Young Children: https://www.naeyc.org/resources/topics/science
Science resources for parents from the National Science Teachers Association: https://www.nsta.org/parents/
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). (2014). Early Childhood Science Education: NSTA Position Statement. A position paper on science in the early years from the National Science Teachers Association: https://www.nsta.org/about/positions/earlychildhood.aspx
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018). English Learners in STEM Subjects: Transforming Classrooms, Schools, and Lives. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.17226/25182.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (2012). The NAEYC Joint (with the Fred Rogers Center at St. Vincent’s College) Position Statement: Technology and Interactive Media as Tools…
Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. (2017). STEM Starts Early. https://joanganzcooneycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/jgcc_stemstartsearly_final.pdf A report on “…grounding science, technology, engineering, and math education in early childhood.”
Early Childhood STEM Working Group at the University of Chicago. (2017). Early STEM Matters http://ecstem.uchicago.edu/
Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE). (2018). Considerations for STEM Education From PreK Through Grade 3 http://cadrek12.org/sites/default/files/DRK12-Early-STEM-Learning-Brief.pdf
Worth, K., & Grollman, S. (2003). Worms, shadows and whirlpools: Science in the early childhood classroom. Portsmouth, NH Describes appropriate approaches to topics in physical, life, and earth and space…