SIG-Early Education and Child Development

Julie M. Nicholson, WestEd Center for Child and Family Studies

Chemistry and Physics in Preschool: Teaching and Learning Through Socioscientific Issues - Andreas Redfors, Kristianstad University

Findings From Iterative Development and a Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine Preschool Science Learning - Ximena Dominguez, SRI International; Marion Goldstein, Education Development Center, Inc.; Ashley E. Lewis Presser, Education Development Center, Inc.; Danae Kamdar, SRI International; Regan Calabro Vidiksis, EDC Center for Children and Technology; Elica Sharifnia, SRI International

Using Media to Foster Early Science Learning in the Home - Megan Silander, Education Development Center, Inc.; Michelle Cerrone, EDC; Leslie Cuellar, Education Development Center, Inc.

Realizing the Dream: Designing Opportunities for Intellectual Engagement in Urban First-Grade Classrooms - Zeynep Isik-Ercan, Rowan University; Corine Meredith Brown, Rowan University; Serhat Ercan, Sinop University

Preservice Early Childhood Teachers' Science Teaching Self-Efficacy Beliefs - Ahmet Simsar, Florida State University; Ithel Jones, Florida State University

"Los Microbios Están Vivos": Teaching Latino Preschoolers a Germ Theory of Cold/Flu Transmission - Laura F. Romo, University of California - Santa Barbara; Terry Au, University of Hong Kong; Yukari Okamoto, University of California - Santa Barbara