ECE Online Guide

The Early Childhood Education (ECE) online guide provides an understanding of how to introduce, implement, and reinforce science concepts in your early childhood classrooms and centers. If this is your first time using this guide, please feel free to read our introduction:

Lessons incorporate concepts from all six of the Museum's core competencies, or content areas—anthropology, geology, health science, paleontology, space science, and zoology. You are encouraged to mix and match among the lessons.

Archaeology/Anthropology

Archaeology
Communication
Local Culture

Earth Science

Rocks and Minerals
Weather

Health Science

Bones and Muscles
Brain
Nutrition

Life Science

Animals (Vertebrates)
Colorado Plants and Animals
Insects

Paleontology

Dinosaurs
Fossilization

Astronomy

Moon
Sun

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Thanks to the Daniels Fund for their generous support in funding this project.