Children involved in project work are encouraged to serve the group needs and share responsibility for what's accomplished.

All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences.

When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being.

Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.