A pile of sand, a sandbox or a sensory table full of sand are tools for imaginative play, sensory exploration and science investigations. In the April 2013 issue of Science and Children, the Early Years column, I wrote about how children wondered what made a series of cone-shaped pits in a line in the sandbox. [...]
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