Science and Technology for the Early Years
Purposeful Play Activities
Pauline Allen(Author)
Brilliant Publications (Publisher)
Published on 6. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-903853-09-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Young children encounter new experiences constantly and seek to understand them in order to extend their skills, develop their confidence and build upon their present knowledge and awareness. "The Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage" addresses the needs of children from the age of three years to the end of their time in the reception class of primary school. Children learn through: playing, alone and with others; talking to themselves, peers and adults; observing, using all their senses; planning what to say and do; questioning everything that puzzles them; experimenting with tools and materials; testing out new ideas and actions; repeating and practising thoughts and actions; reflecting on experiences; and, responding to new ideas and activities. Well-planned play is a key way children learn with enjoyment and challenge during the foundation years, and children of all ages need to play and learn from their thoughts and actions.Opportunities need to be provided for: child-initiated activities and adult-initiated activities; children's own intentions and adult aims; children's meanings and adult interpretations; potential learning outcomes and planned learning outcomes; individual needs and small/large group needs; familiarity and security and challenge and risk; and, spontaneity and flexibility and routine and structure.
Activities aimed at extending knowledge and understanding of the world provide opportunities to solve problems, make decisions, experiment, predict, plan and question in a range of varied contexts as well as to explore and find out about their environment and people and places that have significance in their lives. Aspects of planned experiences for creative development provide opportunities for all children to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of art, design and technology, music, movement, dance and imaginative and role-play activities.One section of this book contains ideas for designing resource areas to stimulate purposeful play. The lists for each of the areas will be useful for planning. The remainder (and bulk) of the book contains planned activities that can be used to ensure that the children have a wide variety of new science, design and technology experiences.
Activities aimed at extending knowledge and understanding of the world provide opportunities to solve problems, make decisions, experiment, predict, plan and question in a range of varied contexts as well as to explore and find out about their environment and people and places that have significance in their lives. Aspects of planned experiences for creative development provide opportunities for all children to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of art, design and technology, music, movement, dance and imaginative and role-play activities.One section of this book contains ideas for designing resource areas to stimulate purposeful play. The lists for each of the areas will be useful for planning. The remainder (and bulk) of the book contains planned activities that can be used to ensure that the children have a wide variety of new science, design and technology experiences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 12 mm
Weight
488 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-903853-09-2 (9781903853092)
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Content
Introduction; PLANNED USE OF RESOURCE AREAS; Book corner; Sand tray; Water play; Scientific and mathematical equipment and artifacts; Writing area; Imaginative play area; Creative media corner; Construction kits and big toys; Computer and concept keyboard station; Food and cooking equipment area; Plants, animals and materials around us; Sounds and music; Games and group activities; PLANNED ACTIVITIES; A ALL ABOUT PEOPLE; Tommy Thumb; Make paper people; Do you have a happy face?; Can we hear you?; Are you Mr Tickle?; Different ways to move over things; Developing a sense of smell; Growing up; Are you well?; Memory games; B ANIMALS; Pets; Watch the tadpoles; Birds; Snails; Woodlice; What's in the pond?; Incy Wincy spider; Milk products; How many wings does a butterfly have?; Noah's ark and pairs of animals; C PLANTS, LEAVES AND FLOWERS; Leaves of all shapes and sizes; Recording leaf shapes; Growing plants from seeds; Jack and the beanstalk; Mary, Mary, quite contrary; Growing bulbs; Plastic bottle greenhouses; Make a seed mosaic; Our food; Harvest festival; D OUT OF DOORS; Look down; Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home; Look up; Can you see the wind?; Who lives at the zoo?; What is it?; Where does it live?; Where do you go for a holiday?; Make an underwater world; We're going on a dinosaur hunt; E EXPLORING MATERIALS; Water play; Bubbles; Can we mend the bucket?; Soaking up water; Natural materials; Make a touchy tortoise; Soft and hard; Smooth and rough; Are playdough and Plasticine the same?; Tidy up time; F JOINING MATERIALS; Sticking things together; Postman's parcels; Cutting skills; Working with wood; Puppet pets; A stitch in time; Who am I today?; Construction corner; Building site; Workshop corner; G CHANGING MATERIALS (FOOD); Sandwich making; Baking and making; Rainbow jelly; What do you like for breakfast?; Sweet or sour?; What did the three little pigs eat?; Chocolate crispies; Fizzy drinks; Dissolving - going, going, gone!; Classroom cafe; H VARIETY OF MATERIALS; Wash day; Put your foot in it; Hands and fingers; Hats on heads; Shoes and other footwear; Growing up and getting bigger; Tea for two; Party plates; Mechanics at work; Time out; I LIGHT AND COLOURS; Adding colours; Changing colours; Bottled colours; Moving colours; Looking through colour; Light and fire; Light and dark; Shining, luminous and dull; Mirror, mirror, on the wall; Elmer the elephant; J SOUND; Sounds and rhythm; Fast and slow, loud and soft; Bangers; Shaking sounds; Twanging sounds; Blowing sounds; Noises we make; Sounds we like; Warning sounds; Everyday sounds; K MOVEMENT AND FORCES;; Moving things; What can the wind do?; Mechanical toys; Moving things; See-saw, Marjorie Daw; People on the bus; Magnets; Pop-up cards - how do they work?; PE movement; Playtime; L ELECTRICITY; Things that use electricity; Using the computer; Toys with batteries; Torches; Shadows; Making a simple circuit; One wire or two?; What is a switch?; Static electricity; Decorative lights.