Early Childhood Education Online Guide

The Early Childhood Education (ECE) online guide provides an understanding of how to introduce, implement, and reinforce science concepts in your early childhood classrooms and centers. If this is your first time using this guide, please feel free to read our introduction:

Teaching Science to Young Children (PDF | 77KB)

Lessons incorporate concepts from all six of the Museum's core competencies, or content areas-anthropology, geology, health science, paleontology, space science, and zoology. You are encouraged to mix and match among the lessons.

Archaeology/Anthropology

Archaeology

Detectives of the Past (PDF | 149KB)
Dig This! (PDF | 154KB)

Communication

Everywhere, Signs (PDF | 391KB)
How We Communicate-Gestures (PDF | 265KB)

Local Culture

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It's All Relative (PDF | 116KB)
My Community (PDF | 153KB)

Astronomy

Moon

Mission to the Moon (PDF | 762KB)
The Moon and Microgravity (PDF | 140KB)

Sun

Our Sunsational Sun (PDF | 154KB)

Earth Science

Rocks and Minerals

Landforms and Erosion (PDF | 205KB)
Let's Rock and Roll (PDF | 98KB)
Loads of Layers (PDF | 114KB)

Weather

Be a Meteorologist (PDF | 148KB)
What's the Weather Like Today? (PDF | 153KB)
What Is a Watershed? (PDF | 134KB)

Health Science

Bones and Muscles

Bone and Muscle Basics (PDF | 285KB)

Brain

Brain Basics (PDF | 311KB)

Nutrition

You Are What You Eat (PDF | 298KB)

Life Science

Animals (Vertebrates)

Animals-How Are They Different? (PDF | 163KB)
Animal Homes (PDF | 144KB)

Colorado Plants and Animals

Colorado Wildlife (PDF | 183KB)
Discovering Colorado Plants (PDF | 128KB)

Insects

The Changing Insect (PDF | 154KB)

Paleontology

Dinosaurs

Cretaceous Camouflage (PDF | 179KB)
Timeless Pteranodon Nests (PDF | 187KB)
T. rex Tooth Measures Up (PDF | 140KB)

Fossilization

Coelacanth Fish Fossils (PDF | 406KB)
Layers of Time (PDF | 143KB)
Shell Fossils (PDF | 133KB)

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