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Hands-On Learning!: More Than 1000 Activities for Young Children Using Everyday Objects

Autor Gwendolyn S. Kaltman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iun 2009
Teachers of young children are always looking for fresh, hands-on activities to engage their students and build their knowledge of the world through firsthand experiences with objects. This innovative resource guides teachers in developing tactile lessons utilizing inexpensive, readily available objects to engage young children's senses and interest. Ideal as a supplement to a primary curriculum as well as for learning centers, this volume includes more than 1,000 sample activities using materials such as cotton balls, paper, and wheels. The activities are organized into 18 themes and grouped into the areas of literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, physical development, and creativity. Reflected throughout the book is a unique approach that:
Presents a new and simple way to design themes and activities that guarantees hands-on learning experiences
Complements any curriculum
Offers suggestions on how to modify activities to respond to children's developmental levels
Includes an additional list of over 60 generic tactile activities that can be adapted for a variety of content areas
Hands-On Learning! is the ideal companion for early childhood educators seeking to provide positive experiential learning opportunities for young students.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412970952
ISBN-10: 1412970954
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Corwin
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

“The book is a wonderful brainstorm of activities. The author provides a list and explanation for each activity, making this an extremely useful and user-friendly resource for early childhood professionals."
“This text will quickly become a favorite for busy teachers wanting to provide engaging learning activities in their classrooms.”
“The wealth of suggestions and materials that are readily available to teachers make this a worthwhile resource for educators, who can pick and choose the activities to incorporate into their curriculum.”
“There cannot be enough resources for teachers who desire to encourage play-based, hands-on learning—and they all should! Gwen Kaltman’s book is practical and puts common household materials in the service of learning.”
"An excellent supplement to any curriculum and to an early childhood teacher’s bag of tricks. The activities are bound to engage young children’s curiosity as they explore everyday objects with a new perspective.”

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Part I. How to Create Hands-On Learning Opportunities
1. A New Way to Design Themes and Activities for Young Children
2. Suggestions for Developing Hands-On Activities: Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical Development, and Creativity
3. Boxes as a Theme: Highlighting Some of the Specific Learning That Can Occur With Each Activity
Part II. Themes and Activities for Hands-On Learning
4. Balls
5. Cotton Balls
6. Hats
7. Index Cards
8. Mail
9. Mittens and Gloves
10. Paint and Paintings
11. Paper
12. Ribbons
13. Shoes and Footwear
14. Spoons
15. Toilet Paper and Other Cardboard Rolls
16. Water
17. Wheels
18. Wood
Appendix: A Letter to Families Explaining the Importance of Hands-On Learning

Notă biografică

Gwen Snyder Kaltman has spent more than 25 years working with young children, their parents, and teachers. She is the author of Help! For Teachers of Young Children: 88 Tips to Develop Children¿s Social Skills and Create Positive Teacher-Family Relationships and More Help! For Teachers of Young Children: 99 Tips to Promote Intellectual Development and Creativity. She has been a preschool teacher, director, college instructor, and educational trainer in various parts of the country and has also been a validator for the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, the accreditation division of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Kaltman has worked with young children in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, and Virginia. She has trained teachers working in Head Start programs in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and rural Georgia and in child care centers and preschools in the suburbs of New York City and Washington, DC. She has observed preschool classes in such diverse places as China, Easter Island, Greenland, India, Malta, Mongolia, Tibet, Tanzania, Venezuela, and native villages above the Arctic Circle and along the Amazon and Sepik rivers.

She earned her BS and MEd in early childhood education from the University of Maryland.

Descriere

Organized into 18 themes, this resource features more than 1,000 hands-on activities using inexpensive, readily available objects to engage young children's senses.