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

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.

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

We are doing earlier and earlier to children what we shouldn't do later.

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.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.