Full Description
Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environments invites center and home based educators to reimagine and reconstruct their image of conventional children's play yards as they know them and to create beautiful outdoor learning spaces on a limited budget with natural elements and loose parts that offer children opportunity for irresistible engaging explorations. Ideas, inspiration, and benefits for changing outdoor environments are provided along with the basics for designing, transforming, and maintaining 11 specific outdoor play zones.
Transforming Your Outdoor Early Learning Environment offers an approach that:
Requires minimal financial resources
Features loose parts and upcycled materials
Integrates nature
Includes inspiring photos of before and after transformations
Offers design tips and material lists
Describes how play in each area fosters children's competencies, development, and learning in the areas of social and emotional, language and communication, cognitive, physical, and expressive arts
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction of Transforming Outdoor Learning Environments
Chapter 1 The What, Why, and How of Transforming Outdoor Learning Environments
Chapter 2 Art Studios
Chapter 3 Clay Studios
Chapter 4 Sound Gardens
Chapter 5 Mud Kitchens
Chapter 6 Small Worlds
Chapter 7 Cozy Areas and Hiding Places
Chapter 8 Construction Areas
Chapter 9 Trajectory Areas
Chapter 10 Sand Areas
Chapter 11 Water Areas
Chapter 12 Large Motor Areas
Chapter 13 Non-Mobile Infant Areas
Appendices
References
