What's the BIG Idea | Activity kit 8

MATH & SCIENCE LITERACY CONNECTIONS BIG IDEA

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This kit is part of the What's The BIG Idea? series and contains:

- two magnifying lenses

- one tape measure

- one seed packet

- instructional manual

- Jody's Beans by Malachy Doyle

- A New Frog by Pamela Hickman

What do young children learn when they explore growth?

They observe and discss life cycles and changes in size and form.
They ask questions about similarities and differences in different stages of growth.
They learn that animals need food, water, air and shelter to grow.
They sort pictures of living things by physical characteristics.

The goal of this What’s the BIG Idea? kit:

To provide a general, basic understanding of growth while reading books, making observations and doing hands-on investigations.

$36.99

In science, growth is the observed or measured increase and change in living and nonliving matter. In mathematics, growth is a numerical increase in an entity. Rates of growth can be measured in units of measure per unit of time.

Young children begin learning science by observing change in their surroundings when an action is taken or time has passed. Understanding how change occurs is a good opportunity to introduce time and spatial quantity as measurable factors (data) to be discussed in a mathematical sense.

Exploring growth stimulates children's interest in the skills and concepts that are essential to understanding both science and mathematics. As children explore growth they are practicing important math and science skills.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0514746. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.