**Excerpt:** Go beyond naming the parts of a plant! Explore how roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds each have an important job—and discover simple, hands-on ways to help young children understand how the parts of a plant work together.

Help young children discover the difference between nature and man-made objects through hands-on observation, sorting, and classification. This simple science exploration encourages children to ask questions, think critically, and make meaningful connections with the world around them.

Help young children discover the difference between living and non-living things through observation, questions, hands-on classification, and nature exploration. This simple science lesson encourages preschool and kindergarten children to think like scientists as they observe, compare, classify, and discover the world around them.