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Pre-order STEM Kit – Preschool with Children’s Books today!

Discover and explore with engaging STEM learning! This comprehensive Preschool STEM Toolkit, made possible through a partnership with General Motors, contains a teacher’s guide, a family activity book, hands-on activities, and interactive read-alouds to spark curiosity and creativity in early learners. With this toolkit, educators can seamlessly introduce science, technology, engineering, and math concepts into their classroom.

Designed to support exploration, problem-solving, and critical thinking, this kit will help educators create a dynamic, discovery-driven classroom.

Key Components of the Preschool STEM Kit:

80 Engaging Activities:

The Preschool STEM Kit contains four activity booklets, one for each area of STEM. Each booklet contains 20 activities designed to provide active learning throughout the daily routine through age-appropriate STEM learning. Activities include vocabulary lists with child-friendly definitions, additional ideas for learning and practice, sequence of development charts, and more.

Teacher’s Guide:

This guide serves as a resource for educators using the Preschool STEM Kit in their classrooms, providing all the information they need about the kit’s contents and STEM learning in preschool. The teacher’s guide introduces HighScope’s STEM Early Learning Goals and offers strategies for embedding STEM throughout the daily routine, creating a STEM-rich classroom environment, and using supportive adult-child interactions to extend children’s thinking.

Family Activity Book:

This booklet helps families extend STEM learning at home with 20 easy-to-follow, take-home activities — five for each area of STEM. The booklet is designed to support classroom-home partnerships, including a family newsletter and strategies for working with families.

STEM Read-Alouds:

The kit also contains eight read-aloud activity booklets, each focused on an area of STEM learning. Each booklet comprises multiple read-aloud activities for repeated readings of each book. In addition, each activity includes vocabulary words from the text with child-friendly definitions, suggested stopping points for teachers, and ideas for what educators might say to engage children in the reading process to support children’s comprehension skills. A read-aloud teacher’s guide is also included to support teachers’ successful use of the read-aloud activity booklets in their classroom.

The eight children’s books in this set include:

• The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires (hardcover)
• Billions of Bricks by Kurt Cyrus (hardcover)
• I Know Numbers! By Taro Gomi (hardcover)
• Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Greenfield Thong (paperback)
• Building a House by Byron Barton (paperback)
• The Pie That Molly Grew by Sue Heavenrich (hardcover)
• Hey, Water! by Antoinette Portis (paperback)
• Technology Then and Now by Cynthia O’Brien (paperback)

The set of eight books will be shipped to each customer from The Book Vine for Children. All books are shipped free of charge, except for customers in Alaska, Canada, and Hawaii (a 10% shipping fee will be added).

If you are an international customer (and not from Canada), please contact the HighScope Press directly at 800.407.7377 to place an order.

To purchase individual books in this set, contact The Book Vine for Children at www.bookvine.com.

Content Developers: Shannon Lockhart, Erica Hill, Danielle Yenser, Jessica Logan, Karen Murillo, Jasmyn Turner

ISBN: 978-1-57379-831-0

The children’s books in this set are not returnable.