Fountainhead Montessori in Danville, California, includes science and other enrichment activities in its early childhood and elementary classrooms. At the Danville campus of Fountainhead Montessori, children learn about the world around them through hands-on scientific exploration activities.

1. By Fountainhead Montessori,
Danville

2.  Fountainhead Montessori in Danville, California, includes
science and other enrichment activities in its early childhood
and elementary classrooms. At the Danville campus of
Fountainhead Montessori, children learn about the world
around them through hands-on scientific exploration activities.
Preschool children are naturally curious about their world.
They enjoy watching animals, learning how things work, and
experimenting with everyday objects. They observe and ask
questions. An age-appropriate early childhood science
program is uniquely positioned to help children harness these
tendencies and use them to develop the skills of a scientist.

3.  To accomplish this goal, the early childhood
science program must be inquiry-focused rather
than based on the learning of facts. Children need
to participate both physically and cognitively in
scientific exploration, which in preschool as in
professional laboratories involves asking questions
and seeking the answers through experimentation.
This experimentation must focus on topics of
interest to the child and should require active
searching, trying, and reflecting to uncover
answers. Only in doing so can children engage
with science and begin to think of themselves as
scientists.