In Eco-Education for Young Children, a foremost thought leader in early education describes new ways to investigate the environment in and out of school. Features include: * Wide-ranging overviews of current issues and sciences impacting the environment * Scenarios to increase children's--and teachers'--passion for environmental sciences * Over 200 "Try This" activities * Stories of break-through scientists * Showcases for Emergent Curriculum and Reggio-inspired practices Read this book and watch infants' responses to nature, hear toddlers use nature-related words inventively, and feel 0 to 8-year-olds' excitement as they grasp ideas about astronomy, geology, paleontology, biology, and more.