Projects

Preschool Nature Explorers

Blakely Tsurusaki

National Science Foundation
GLOBE Program
Rota Foundation
Edward Jones
Society for Science

The Preschool Nature Explorers Program is a partnership between Rethink Learning and the Seattle Public Library. In this program, we bring an integrated learning experience with an emphasis on environmental science to preschool students. By engaging in one or more books read to them by a librarian, students start to think about science questions. Then, hands-on activities let them experience science through exploration, creation, and questioning. Each lesson includes a focus on:

Making Observations
Looking for Patterns
Systems Thinking

This program began in May 2025 and we are currently working with a disabilities inclusive preschool in downtown Seattle, WA.

Photos from Preschool Nature Explorers

A child's hands hold a piece of egg carton 3 lumps long that they have turned into a caterpillar by attaching blue tufts to each hump, chenille (pipe cleaner) legs, and google eyes. They are holding a blue crayon.

A little girl is holding a red marker as she starts to color in a polar bear she is making from a paper plate.

We see the back of a small child in a green shirt with green shorts holding a pinwheel outside in a yard.

A child's colored in paper of the Northern Lights. It has reds, pinks, blues, greens, and yellows colored on black paper.