"Hands-on STEAM Explorations for Young Learners uses popular children's nursery rhymes to explore STEAM concepts through minds-on, hands-on investigations. Children ages 4-8 and their teachers will love this twist on familiar old nursery rhymes. Children will enjoy problem solving and tinkering as they discover and explore. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep insists that she hides more colors in the drawn lines of her black wool. Test to find out if it is possible for black to be more than one color. How might you make Old King Cole's fidlde using cardboard boxes and rubber bands? Teachers will appreciate the easy-to-follow layout, connections to advanced learning, and easy-to-access materials in each investigation. Innovation, wonder, and fun are at the heart of each of the explorations."--Back cover.

Introduction: Encouraging big ideas from little learners -- Teacher's lesson guide. Hickory, dickory, dock: Friction ; Did you ever see a lassie?: Relative location ; Hey diddle diddle: Gravity and actions/reactions ; Rock-a-bye, baby: Potential and kinetic energy ; Miss Mary Mack: Simple machines ; London Bridge: Engineering ; Old King Cole: Sound and vibration ; Five little speckled frogs: Buoyancy ; Star light, star bright: Density ; Baa, baa, black sheep: Color and chromatography -- References -- Appendix: Nursery rhyme STEAM challenge cards.