Seeing Science Through Play: Three lenses to enhance early learning (2025)

Science and Children, Volume 62, Issue 6, Nov/Dec 2025, pages 38-43

Lisa Kenyon, Rachel A. Larimore, Maranda Chung, Leonard Kenyon & Hildah Makori

https://doi.org/10.1080/00368148.2025.2553372  

Pumping Up Curiosity: How child-led play fuels early science learning (2025)

Science and Children, May/June 2025 (Volume 62, Issue 3), pages 58-64

Kate Cook Whitt, Aaron Beaumont & Jessica Lewis

https://doi.org/10.1080/00368148.2025.2482267 

Article Details Three Lenses for Recognizing Play-Based Science

MMSA Blog, December 2025

Devin Shepherd & Maranda Chung

https://mmsa.org/article-details-three-lenses-for-recognizing-play-based-science/ 

DRK-12, CADRE Leave Lasting Impact on STEM Education in Maine

MMSA Blog, October 2025

Devin Shepherd

https://mmsa.org/drk-12-cadre-leave-lasting-impact-on-stem-education-in-maine/ 

Developing, Testing, and Refining Professional Learning Materials to Support Play-Based Science

MMSA Blog, January 2025

Maranda Chung

https://mmsa.org/play-based-science/ 

Reflecting on a Year of SciEPlay Professional Learning

MMSA Blog, September 2024

Devin Shepherd

https://mmsa.org/scieplay-professional-learning-retrospective/ 

SciEPlay Partner Spotlight: Dr. Rachel Larimore on Nature-Based Learning

MMSA Blog, May 2024

Maranda Chung & Rachel Larimore

https://mmsa.org/scieplay-rachel-larimore/ 

Transforming Early Science Education Through Play

MMSA Blog, April 2024

Maranda Chung

https://mmsa.org/scieplay-transforming-early-science-education-through-play/ 

July 15, 2022 – Press Release from Bowdoin News: Bowdoin Receives NSF Grant to Expand STEM Education for Maine Preschoolers and Kindergarteners

July 18, 2022 – Press Release from Portland Press Herald: Bowdoin, math and science alliance receive more than $2.25 million to expand STEM education for Maine preschoolers, Kindergarteners.

Preschool Science Teaching in Head Start Classrooms (2026)

Early Education and Development, 1–19.

Rachel A. Larimore, Christina V. Schwarz, Laurie A. Van Egeren, KyungSook Lee, Hope K. Gerde, Shelly Van Huis & Kerry Kelly

https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2026.2676330 

Reassessing Recess: Recognizing and Supporting Scientific and Engineering Practices in Play (2023)

Science and Children, Volume 60, Issue 4, March/April 2023, pages 76-82

Alison Riley Miller & Martha Eshoo

https://www.nsta.org/science-and-children/science-and-children-marchapril-2023/reassessing-recess 

https://doi.org/10.1080/00368148.2023.12291875 

Exploring relationships between playspaces, pedagogy, and preschoolers’ play-based science and engineering practices (2021)

The Journal of Childhood, Education & Society, Volume 2, Issue 3, Teaching and Learning of Science during the Early Years (Special Issue), pages 314-337

Alison Riley Miller & Lauren P. Saenz

https://doi.org/10.37291/2717638X.202123121 

Preschool science education: A vision for the future. (2020)

Early Childhood Education Journal (Volume 48), pages 708-714.

Rachel A. Larimore

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-020-01033-9