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Curriculum and EquipmentNumber of resources found: 18
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General Information
Children and Nature Network Language: English
Publisher: Children & Nature Network (2013)
Description: This website includes information on how to connect children with nature with sections for parents, teachers, and the community. The site includes tools, research, resources, and publications.
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Family Time – Audubon Society Language: English
Publisher: Audubon Society (2013)
Description: This section of the Audubon website focuses on families and nature and includes activity ideas, and suggestions for nature outings. It focuses on ways to bring nature into the family’s daily life.
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Growing Up Wild! Language: English
Publisher: Council for Environmental Education (2013)
Description: Growing Up WILD is an early childhood education program that builds on a children's sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore the wildlife and the world around them. It is designed for educators of children ages 3-7 and includes a range of activities and experiences for young children.
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Health Benefits to Children from Contact with the Outdoors & Nature Language: English
Author: Charles, Cheryl
Publisher: Children and Nature Network (2012)
Description: This annotated bibliography includes information from articles on how the outdoors and nature impacts children. Included are articles on children's health and well-being, mental and physical health benefits.
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Nature Explore Language: English
Publisher: Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (2012)
Description: This website is supported by a collaboration of the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation. It provides information, research, activities, materials, and resources to encourage and support children's interaction and learning with nature.
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Nature Explore Families Club Kit (free online download) Language: English
Publisher: Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation (2012)
Description: The Families’ Club kit is packed full of easy to use, developmentally appropriate activities shown to engage families in exploring the natural world together. The kit includes general information and customizable forms to get your club started, a facilitator’s guide with helpful hints on organization, and nine visual, child-friendly activity sheets with facilitator notes specific to each one.
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PBS TeacherSource- From the Start
Language: English
Publisher: Public Broadcasting Service (2012)
Description: The Public Broadcasting Services TeacherSource website features preschool through second grade lesson plans and activities. The site also has links to parent connections, professional development, PBS happenings, and recommended books and links. Browse by subject to learn more about arts, literature, health, math, science, social studies, pre k-2, or library media.
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Preschool Curriculum: What's In It for Children and Teachers Language: English
Publisher: Albert Shanker Institute (2009)
Description: A recent report from the Albert Shanker Institute discusses the benefits of aligning preschool curriculum with new research about how children learn in the academic areas of oral language, pre-literacy, mathematics, and science. It provides guidance on developmentally appropriate accomplishments for pre-k children, effective instructional practices, components of a strong curriculum, and working with English language learners.
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Project Wild Language: English
Publisher: Council for Environmental Education (2009)
Description: This website Project wild is a wildlife focused conservation education program for K-12 educators and their students. The site includes conservation and environmental education programs for educators of students in kindergarten through high school.
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The Loss of Children’s Play: A Public Health Issue Language: English
Publisher: Alliance for Childhood (2010)
Description: This policy brief describes the loss of children's play as a public health issue. It outlines the health issues at stake and provides facts about what the impact is in providing opportunities for children to "play".
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Professional Development
Head Start Math Webcasts Language: English
Author: Copley, Juanita
Publisher: Head Start (2008)
Description: This Webcast series is intended for personnel who support Head Start teaching teams: supervisors, directors, curriculum specialists, mentor-coaches, and T/TA staff. It is also appropriate for all teachers of young children including child care home providers, child care center staff, and preschool teachers. The age frame covered in these webcasts is birth to five so it is also appropriate for infant and toddler teachers.
This series includes 6 webcast sessions and recommended readings available to download.
Webcast One - Where's the Math?
Webcast Two - Number and Operations Math
Webcast Three - Geometry and Spatial Sense
Webcast Four - Measurement Math
Webcast Five - Patterns Math
Webcast Six - Putting It All Together Math
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Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 Language: English, Spanish
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children (2012)
Description: This new position statement from NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College provides important guidance to early childhood programs on the effective use of media and technology.
A variety of resources about the new position statement are available on NAEYC's website, including the position statement, key messages, examples of effective practice, a webcast, and related resources. It is available as an interactive or standard PDF.
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Unplanned Explorations and Lively Minds Language: English
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children (2012)
Description: This fact sheet from NAEYC's Teaching Young Children magazine highlights the value of rich and meaningful learning that happens in authentic, everyday experiences. Early educators often spend much time and effort planning such
experiences. However, sometimes we support children’s learning best by stepping out of the way. This lets us learn alongside the children. These experiences emphasize the importance of following the children’s lead to see what they can teach us and each other.
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Programming Resource
Family Night Out Language: English
Publisher: Washington State University (2012)
Description: Family Night Out! is a family enrichment program with an educational component that attracts an audience who otherwise would not participate in traditional programs. It is a strength-based, not deficit-based, program. Its non-threatening "hands-on" experiential activities attract and encourage the participation of all family members. The Family Night Out! model utilizes 4-H Portable Challenge or experiential/adventure based learning with families. Family Night Out! has helped to build more resilient families and communities by bringing area families together to meet and play, often for the first time.
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Head Start Study Finds Long-Term Impact Language: English
Author: Oden, Sherri
Publisher: High/Scope Educational Research Foundation (2000)
Description: This is a review of a follow-up Head Start study of children who were born in poverty and did or did not attend Head Start. The study found evidence of important effects on school success and crime. The study also examined the effects of a Head Start program that used a proven curriculum, the High/Scope educational approach. Principal investigator Sherri Oden said, "These findings confirm that Head Start programs can have important long-term effects on the lives of the children they serve."
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Launching into Literacy and Math: What is Early Math? Language: English
Author: Ballweg, Judy
Publisher: Madison, WI public schools (Aug 2009)
Description: This website provides information on early math learning with more specific information on infants and toddlers, preschoolers, child assessments, and professional resources for teachers. Handouts are available including book lists, fingerplays and chants, Spanish resources, developmental milestones, and more.
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Preschool Curriculum: What's In It for Children and Teachers Language: English
Publisher: Albert Shanker Institute (2009)
Description: A recent report from the Albert Shanker Institute discusses the benefits of aligning preschool curriculum with new research about how children learn in the academic areas of oral language, pre-literacy, mathematics, and science. It provides guidance on developmentally appropriate accomplishments for pre-k children, effective instructional practices, components of a strong curriculum, and working with English language learners.
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Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 Language: English, Spanish
Publisher: National Association for the Education of Young Children (2012)
Description: This new position statement from NAEYC and the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College provides important guidance to early childhood programs on the effective use of media and technology.
A variety of resources about the new position statement are available on NAEYC's website, including the position statement, key messages, examples of effective practice, a webcast, and related resources. It is available as an interactive or standard PDF.
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The Perpetual Preschool Language: English
Publisher: The Perpetual Preschool (2012)
Description: This Web site contains lots of information about preschoolers, and lots of ideas for activities for fun and learning. It also offers training for staff for a fee. The training is self study.
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Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom Language: English
Author: Perry, Bruce
Publisher: Scholastic (2012)
Description: This article discusses the use of technology (computers, cameras, video cameras and tape recorders) with children ages 3-6 by an internationally recognized authority on brain development and children in crisis, Dr. Perry.
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