Ms Eleni Petinos addresses parliament to acknowledge Kirrawee Child Care Centre’s status as a Little Scientists House. She describes Little Scientists Australia’s purpose to help children grow into resilient, critical‑thinking and problem-solving individuals through inquiry-based learning and playful scientific exploration…
For more than three years CELA members have found affordable professional development in the burgeoning area of science, technology, engineering and maths [STEM] through an agreement with the Little Scientists organisation. CELA writer Margaret Paton looks at how this training is going and why it’s so important…
A key concept of Little Scientists is an inquiry-cycle approach that supports structuring children’s discovery process. To demonstrate how scientific research in an early childhood setting could be done, we take a look at making soap bubbles…
News articles released prior to July 2017…