Community Science for Six-Year-Olds

While working with a team of kindergarten teachers at an environmental science magnet school in Northern California, I found that lesson planning and design that capitalizes on young scientists' willingness to share their ideas furthers robust ways of supporting ongoing changes in their students' thinking. Together, we designed a sequence about human impact on the environment (K-ESS-3-3) for which students collected an analyzed data to build awareness of the role of honey bees in the environment.