Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children

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In Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children award-winning educator Vicki Carper Bartolini offersoffers practical suggestions and resources to re-envision your early learning environment with a focus on STEM. Using the Reggio Emilia lens that honors the right of children to have a wondrous learning environment, Carper Bartolini guides the reader to consider children’s competencies as they collaboratively engage in STEM investigations.

Creating a Reggio-Inspired STEM Environment for Young Children inspires and gives you immediate steps to take in your own space. The book includes:

• Case studies of programs that have rethought their STEM environments
• Lessons learned from Reggio Emilia
• Guidance on use of time and space
• Materials and themes
• Resources for setting up a Reggio-Inspired STEM environment

  Starting one step at a time you can re-imagine a playful, inquiry-based STEM learning environment that invites all children to experience wonderous explorations.