I. Science for preschoolers provides opportunities to improve the following skills:
A. Observation
B. Questioning
C. Classification/Comparison
D. Grouping
E. Prediction
F. Measurement
G. Proving/Conclusion
H. Increase scientific vocabulary
II. These skills can be introduced and encouraged by:
A. display of simple objects/experiments on or at a center
B. providing cause and effect situations
C. providing sets or groups of scientific materials to compare/investigate such as to size, texture, weight, living, non-living, and temperature
D. manipulation of items or objects
E. providing opportunities to duplicate an experimentation process from beginning through ending in a child directed manner
