Opportunities to learn and discover surround a young child every day. The activities and ideas within this book have been formulated to encourage a child's natural curiosity and sense of wonder and to engage all the child's senses in learning and discovery. The activities focus on the child as a natural explorer and involve children in identifying problems, observing discrepancies, drawing inferences, generating hypotheses, interpreting results, and drawing conclusions. Topics include Water, Air, Plants and Growth, Light, Shadows, Magnets, Sound, Changes, and Electricity. Appendices contain teacher aids and resources. (JRH)