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Experience Science in Action
The best approach to teaching science is to have children “do” science in addition to read about it and learn facts. Knowledge is not something that can be transmitted passively to a learner; new knowledge must be constructed by the learner from his or her own experience. Children gain knowledge most readily by actively engaging with the world around them, and by participating in a community of sense-making learners.

In keeping with these ideas, ESEP provides children more than just textbooks. It gives them access to role models and real materials and equipment that allow them to do meaningful experiments designed to answer actual questions.

ESEP’s goal is to enhance science teaching in the APS elementary schools by providing science materials and helping kindergarten through fifth grade teachers to use inquiry-based instruction instead of traditional didactic approaches that involve textbook-driven lectures and rote memorizationons.

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