Understand how the characteristics of an enabling indoor and outdoor play environment meet the age, stage and needs of children
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text: ‘Indoor and outdoor environments'
- ‘Creating indoor environments for young children’ webpage on the Community Playthings website
- ‘My space: Creating enabling environments for young children’ by SureStart
- ‘Learning outdoors in the early years’ webpage on the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment website
- ‘Practice guide: Outdoor provision and play’ webpage on the Nursery World website
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Characteristics of an enabling indoor play environment'
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Characteristics of an enabling outdoor play environment'
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Read this article from Nursery World about ‘EYFS Best Practice: All about ... forest schools’.
- Click on the icon to the left to look at this online presentation from the Freeplay Network, which gives examples of great outdoor play areas as well as their underlying design principles. The examples show how design of the outdoor area can help to support children’s physical play and exercise.
- Find and read a copy of ‘Playing Outside: Activities, ideas and inspiration for the early years’ by Helen Bilton (2nd edition 2014 Routledge).
- Carry out an internet search, using Google or any other search engine you prefer, and find 3 useful websites of your own that provide useful information about how and why childcare practitioners should create stimulating environments for children
- Extended Learning
- Click on this link to view the jungle-themed 'Room to Learn' created by The Childcare Company for the Childcare and Nursery Show 2008 at the Bournemouth International Centre
- Click on this link to view the space-themed 'Space to Learn' created by The Childcare Company for the Childcare and Nursery Show 2009 at Olympia.
- Think And Challenge
- Think And Challenge
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