Chapter 1: The Inclusion of Science in Early Childhood Classrooms, Kathy Cabe Trundle.- Chapter 2: Young Children’s Motivation for Learning Science, Helen Patrick, Panayota Mantzicopoulos.- Chapter 3: Young Children’s Ideas about Earth and Space Science Concepts, Mesut Saçkes.- Chapter 4: Young Children’s Ideas about Physical Science Concepts, Yannis Hadzigeorgiou.- Chapter 5: Children’s Ideas about Life Science Concepts, Valarie Akerson, Ingrid Weiland, Khadija Fouad
Chapter 6: Too Little, Too Late: Addressing Nature of Science in Early Childhood Education, Randy L. Bell and Tyler L. St. Clair
Chapter 7: Development of Science Process Skills in the Early Childhood Years, Jamie Jirout, Corinne Zimmerman
Chapter 8: The Use of Technology in Teaching Science to Young Children, Sedat Ucar
Chapter 9: Teaching Science to Young Children with Special Needs, Sheila Alber-Morgan, Mary R. Sawyer, Heather Lynnine Miller.- Chapter 10: Physical-Knowledge Activities for the Development of Logico-Mathematical Knowledge, Constance Kamii.- Chapter 11: Science and Literacy: Considering the Role of Texts in Early Childhood Science Education, Laura B. Smolkin, Carol A. Donnovan
Chapter 12: Role of Play in Teaching Science in the Early Childhood Years, Berrin Akman and Sinem, Güçhan Özgül.- Chapter 13: A Modeling-Based Inquiry Framework for Early Childhood Science Learning, Ala Samarapungavan, Deborah Tippins, Lynn Bryan.- Chapter 14: Connecting Young Children with the Natural World: Past, Present and Future Landscapes, Deborah J. Tippins, Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, Debra Mitchell.- Chapter 15: Science Education for Young Emergent Bilinguals, Leslie C. Moore and Mandy McCormick Smith
Chapter 16: Assessment in Early Childhood Science Education, Daryl Greenfield.