Early STEM Education: Nurturing Future Innovators Through Hands-On Learning

Nurturing Future Innovators Through Hands-On Learning Early STEM Education – Picture a first-grade classroom, maybe even your own. Kids gather around the sand table, exploring the sand, letting the grains run between their fingers. The teacher passes out some props—marbles, rulers, boxes and cups—and lets students explore freely for a few minutes. The kids excitedly …

Preschoolers make play time scientific in new STEM LAB

The Amazing Explorers Academy in Waterford Lakes cut the ribbon on a brand new STEM LAB built and designed by the Orlando Science Center. Preschoolers make play time scientific in new STEM LAB. Playing in the sandbox doesn’t cut it anymore in preschool. “We’re preparing our students for good careers,” Amazing Explorers Chief Learning Officer. …

10 Summer Reading Programs for Kids

School is just about out for summer. We know you and your students are ready for the break. However, these long summer breaks can take their toll with students losing skills you worked so hard to teach! We put together this list of free summer reading programs to help keep kids reading and learning all …

Six Characteristics of a Great STEM Lesson

STEM is more than just a grouping of subject areas. It is a movement to develop the deep mathematical and scientific underpinnings students need to be competitive in the 21st-century workforce. But this movement goes far beyond preparing students for specific jobs. STEM develops a set of thinking, reasoning, teamwork, investigative, and creative skills that …

Innovative educators preparing the Next Generation

For the digital generation, kids who don’t remember life without the internet, answers are immediate, no more than a click away – and a wifi connection. Now, Amazing Explorers Academy Waterford Lakes is taking that one step further, embracing the digital generation and their zest for learning by bringing the answers up close and personal, …

Building A Loving Relationship With Your Children

A loving relationship with you is the most important part of your child’s environment. Tuning in and responding to your child with warmth and gentleness lays the foundations for your child’s development and helps to shape the adult your child will become. Why loving, nurturing relationships are important Children’s relationships shape the way they see …

Early Childhood Science Education

At an early age, all children have the capacity and propensity to observe, explore, and discover the world around them (NRC 2012). These are basic abilities for science learning that can and should be encouraged and supported among children in the earliest years of their lives. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) affirms that learning …

Pre-K Student Starts Recycling Project at Amazing Explorers

  A great community effort may be inspired by a Amazing Explorers. Pre-K Student student Easton Potts took his concern about saving the trees in Waterford Lakes to his teachers and campus director implementing a recycling program in school. The concept is simple, but the results could be huge. “I want this project to be large”,  Easton …

Waterford Lakes preschool goes high tech

Embark on a visionary educational journey as Fox 35 Orlando takes you inside Amazing Explorers Academy, a high-tech preschool pioneering Central Florida’s approach to shaping the next generation for success. At Amazing Explorers Academy, children are not just learning the basics of math, science, and teamwork; they are doing so in a completely new and …

Amazing Explorers – Eyewitness News

Eyewitness News Stay Informed with Everything News: Count on us for comprehensive coverage! Children born in this century are mastering computer tablets before taking their first steps. Today, a cutting-edge daycare tailored for these tech-savvy youngsters has opened its doors. Everything News captured the excitement at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Amazing Explorers Academy, a STEAM …