Cate Heroman

Making and Tinkering with STEM: Solving Design Challenges with Young Children, Second Edition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tinker, Make, EngineerSolving Problems from Picture Books




Can you build a sturdy house that is safe from the big, bad wolf?




Imagine your dream car. What special features does it have?




What can you use to create it?

In the first edition of this bestselling book, author Cate Heroman made teaching and learning STEM concepts more accessible than ever before through the maker movement. The practical, hands-on resource guided teachers to inspire, delight, and challenge children to use everyday materials to design and build solutions to problems faced by characters in their favorite books.

This revised, expanded, and updated second edition

• Features 35 design challenges appropriate for children ages 3 through 8; this includes favorite design challenges from the first edition, some of which are revised to be more robust, as well as all-new design challenges
• Organizes the design challenges into four sections/concepts-Build It, Move It, Change It, and Invent It
• Updates many of the picture books to include recommendations that are culturally inclusive
• Adds more information about making and tinkering, including how it connects to developmentally appropriate practice and learning standards

Use engaging children's books together with the guidance and ideas in this book to extend children's problem-solving skills and creative thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Association for the Education of Young Children
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781952331435
• Artikelnr.: 75912640

Autorenporträt

Cate Heroman is one of the founders of Knock Knock Children's Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, serving children birth to age 8 and renowned for its emphasis on early literacy and early STEAM education. She has been instrumental in establishing a makerspace in the museum and has spent countless hours studying and researching what making, tinkering, and design engineering look like with young learners.

Her passion is to help children be successful learners and socially competent individuals. A nationally recognized educator and author-her numerous publications include The Creative Curriculum for Preschool and Teaching Strategies GOLD. Cate's professional experiences center on early childhood education. She has been an early childhood classroom teacher, state administrator, trainer, facilitator, keynote speaker, author, consultant, and developer of curriculum and assessment materials. She has a deep understanding not only of what children learn but also how they learn.

Cate received a master's degree from Louisiana State University. Previously, she taught in East Baton Rouge Parish Schools, served as an early childhood administrator at the Louisiana Department of Education, and was vice president of Teaching Strategies, LLC.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Author  
About the Contributing Editor 
Acknowledgements  
   
Introduction  
Part One: Setting the Stage  
Chapter 1: Understanding Children and Their Families 
Chapter 2: Creating a Learning Environment for Tinkering, Making, and
Engineering  Chapter 3: Guiding, Observing, Documenting, and Assessing STEM
Learning  
Chapter 4: Moving from Foundations to Action with Design Challenges  
   
Part Two: Design Challenges 
Section One: Build It 
 Beautiful Buildings  
 Bug City 
 Build a Bridge 
 Build a Fort  
 Home Tweet Home 
 A House for the Three Little Pigs 
 The Just-Right Chair  
 Section Two: Move It 
 Float Your Boat 
 Launch It!  
 Marbles in Motion 
 Move Like an Animal
 Spring into Action  
 Squirrel Shenanigans   
 Tower Power 
 Wind Wonders 
 Zany Chain Reactions 
 Section Three: Change It  
 Bubble Wand Magic  
 Color-Mixing Machine
 Face It! 
 Giant Shadows 
 If the Shoe Fits 
 Instrument Engineer 
 Juice It!  
 Silly Sounds  
 Weaving Wonders 
 Section Four: Invent It   
 Box It!  
 Design a Bot 
 Frame Factory  
 Gizmos Galore 
 Help, It’s Stuck!  
 Invent a Thing   
 Pet Carrier  
 Playground Maker  
 Toy Workshop  
 What a Car!    
 Book List 
 References 
 Index