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OverviewTransforming 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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lisa DalyPublisher: Redleaf Press Imprint: Redleaf Press Weight: 0.826kg ISBN: 9781605547381ISBN 10: 1605547387 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 30 March 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 ReferencesReviewsWow! What an attractive and eminently practical book. Lisa Daly provides lavish photographic examples of how to transform early childhood play yards and home backyards. It's easy to say, 'I want one of those' and understand how you could create one of those spaces easily and economically. It's a feast of good ideas. -David Sobel, author of The Sky Above and the Mud Below and Nature Preschools and Forest Kindergartens, professor emeritus in the Education Department at Antioch University New England in Keene, New Hampshire. Author InformationLisa Daly is passionate about transforming early learning to deepen meaningful experiences and connections, innovation, creativity, and reflection. Her professional work is centered around collaborating with educators to shift teaching approaches and transform learning environments to support children’s identities, inquiry, and engagement. Lisa is professor emerita of early childhood education at Folsom Lake College, a child and family advocate, author, consultant, and presenter. Lisa has over 40 years of service as a classroom educator and administrator in preschool, parent co-operative, and college lab settings. She has co-authored Early Learning Theories Made Visible, and the award-winning Loose Parts series with Redleaf Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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