8 Fun and Educational Toys That'll Get Your Little 1 Ready For Preschool. By Laurel Niedospial. ... If a toy can also spur imagination and an interest in science and engineering, even better ...

Whether or not preschool teachers offer science lessons and activities in their classrooms depends largely on how comfortable they are in the topic, according to new research from Michigan State ...

Preschool teachers spend about 4 to 8 percent of their instructional time on early-science concepts, and the picture isn’t much improved for elementary school—teachers there devote only 6 to ...

Preschoolers can be smarter than college students at figuring out how unusual toys and gadgets work because they're more flexible and less biased than adults in their ideas about cause and effect ...