The Early Childhood/Elementary STEM Collaboration – Author Team

Dr. Alissa A. Lange, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

Dr. Laura Robertson, Associate Professor of Science Education, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

Dr. Jamie Price, Associate Professor of Math Education, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

Mrs. Amie Craven, teacher and graduate student, Early Childhood Education, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

Adapted by:

Dr. Ellen Schiller, Professor of Elementary Education, GVSU, Grand Rapids, MI

External Reviewers

Dr. Lori Meier, Professor of Education, CUAI and JPL/NASA Solar System Ambassador, ETSU, Johnson City, TN

Cindy Hoisington, Early Childhood science educator, Education Development Center Inc., Waltham, MA

Dr. Kristin Rearden, Clinical Professor of STEM Education/Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the ETSU OER Awards Program administered by Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University for the funding to support creation of this document during Summer, 2020. The authors would also like to thank current and former ETSU students Alyssa Hare (early childhood), Daisy Flomberg (early childhood), Elizabeth Schock (early childhood), Anna Lowe (early childhood), Taylor Spence (elementary), Mackenzie Garcia (elementary), Allison Frazier (elementary), and Eric Dunlap (elementary) for their contributions to the featured activities. These pre-service teachers’ projects were highlighted in the text.

Thank you to other STEM collaboration team members for input on the content and scope of this text, including Dr. Ryan Nivens and Qiuju Tian.

We would like to thank David Harker, philosophy professor at ETSU, who authored part of our section on “Why Science and STEM?” His work on the philosophy of science and how the public understands scientific knowledge can be found here. Thanks also to Chris Bowen, for contributing to the section on equity in early and elementary STEM education found here. In addition, we appreciate our external reviewers listed above, who spent their time to give us valuable feedback on drafts of this textbook.

More on the STEM Collaboration in Appendix A