WHSA 2025 Annual Conference

Three and Four-Year-Old children are natural investigators. They explore their surroundings as they play with materials, wonder and ask why, and investigate their surroundings to learn more. This session will explore how using developmentally appropriate, hands-on explorations in the preschool classroom helps children experience the excitement of discovery and develop their scientific thinking as they engage with the physical and natural worlds around them.

-Attendees will describe and share developmentally appropriate strategies for encouraging scientific inquiry and joyful discovery that can be implemented in classrooms
-Attendees will identify topics of interest for three and four-year-olds that lend themselves to in-depth investigation and hands-on exploration
- Attendees will demonstrate ways to leverage the natural inquisitiveness of preschool age children through the use of a project based whole child approach to learning