Project staff

Dr. Philip Uri Treisman, Principal Investigator

Dr. Marilyn L. Fowler, Project Director

Jennifer Ramsey, Graduate Research Assistant

Advisory team

Gordon Bacon, Department Chair, Early Childhood Professions, Central Texas College, Killeen

Mary Carrillo, Teacher, Head Start Center, New Braunfels

Gwen Chance, Project Director, Texas Head Start State Collaborative Office, Austin

Juanita (Nita) Copley, Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Houston, Cypress

Mary Hobbs, Director of Science, Spring Branch Independent School District, Houston

Maria Luisa Illescas-Glascock, Kindergarten Teacher, Austin Independent School District, Austin

Kathy Irwin, Director of Programs, Children's Museum of Houston, Houston

Becky Jones, Early Childhood Educator, Austin Childrenís Museum, Austin

Maggie Myers, Research Associate, Charles A. Dana Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Stuart Reifel, Professor of Early Childhood Education, College of Education, The University of Texas at Austin

Kathleen Weager-Coyne, Early Childhood Educator, Austin Childrenís Museum, Austin

Theresa Weeks, Curriculum Director, Sweeney Independent School District, Sweeney

Science and Mathematics for Early Care and Education

The Science and Mathematics for Early Care and Education project offers a series of five posters that present Early Care and Education (ECE) practitioners with questions to activate students' science and mathematics conceptual thinking.

The posters will be of most use to Head Start directors, ECE coordinators, and others who will share them with preschool teachers.

The posters are available for downloading in both English and Spanish.

How to use the posters:

Ideally, the posters should be printed in full color on 18-inch by 24-inch paper. Laminate the posters for durability. Display one poster in the classroom for at least a month; refer to the poster tips (pdf 12kb) for more information. To involve parents, we recommend that you print out and send home the parent tipsheets (pdf 12kb) we designed to go home as each poster is on display.

These posters help teachers encourage their students to think scientifically and mathematically during even the most routine activities, such as getting in line ("Who is biggest?"), playing outside ("Tell me what you see."), or serving snack ("Is there enough for everyone?").

Grouping Poster

English (pdf 744kb), Spanish (740kb)

Comparing Poster

English (pdf 864kb), Spanish (880kb)

Pattern Poster

English (pdf 696kb), Spanish (704kb)

Experience Poster

English (pdf 728kb), Spanish (728kb)

Change Poster

English (pdf 708kb), Spanish (684kb)

© Copyright 2002. The University of Texas at Austin. All Rights Reserved. This material is based upon work funded by the National Science Foundation under Planning Grant #ESI-0100315. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.