Water Dynamics (REC #6115) This resource for teachers details a water play and exploration experience where children make predictions and follow outcomes of their predictions as water moves and flows through plastic cups.

Interactive Tools for Parents: Developmental Milestones (REC #9602) This interactive tool allows the user to view how a developmental milestone category changes as a child grows.

Pet Survey (REC #6214) This lesson has the children and teacher creating and conducting a survey about pets of friends and family, and eventually analyzing the results..

The Bridge Project (REC #11870) When the children began to notice and sketch the bridges in their playground area, the teachers thought perhaps it would lead to some inquiry. And they were correct. The children’s questions—such as “What makes a bridge stay up?”—framed the investigation. The meaningful classroom and field site experiences provided opportunities for the children to find the answers.

Creating Caring Classroom Communities through Reader’s Theater (REC #9852) This is the seventh best practice brief. This brief is a concise article detailing research based, authentic, and age appropriate experiences in the area of early childhood language arts and