please answer all of the following questions:
Question #1-
What is the role of the teacher in the early childhood classroom? What is the role of the environment?
Question 2
You are a teacher in a 3-5 year old classroom, and notice that several children are interested in earthworms. Its been raining the last few days and the children have been pointing to the earthworms in the yard during outdoor time. What can you do to extend the children’s interest? What activities can you plan to further investigate the topic of earthworms? Take one of your activities, and put it into a lesson plan by filling in the blanks:
Name of Activity (you can decide and make up a name for your activity) _____________________
Goal(s) (list your goal(s) for the activity) ____________________________
Materials (list everything you will need to do this activity with the children) ___________________________
Steps/Procedures for the activity (How will you do this activity with the children? Include details, steps, what will you say to the children?) _______________________________________________
Vocabulary (what vocabulary words can you introduce around this topic?) _________________________________
Other comments
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Question 3-
Answer one of the following questions. Answer either a or b.
What evidence/examples (personal or from textbook) can you provide to support this statement, “A played based curriculum supports children’s cognitive, language, creative, physical and social emotional development.”
A parents says to the teacher, “All they do is play! When are they going to learn….?” How should the teacher respond (based on best practices and what we have learned in class)?
Question 4-
Discuss how and why 1) observation, 2) developmentally appropriate practices, and 3) anti bias education are used in planning curriculum?
Question 5-
Select 2 areas commonly found in an early childhood classroom: Block Area, Science Area, Book/Library Area, Dramatic Play Area, Outdoor Area, Art Area, Music Area.
What skills are children developing when playing in those areas, include 4-5 specific examples for each area. For example, you might say… Book Area, children are developing concepts of print when the teacher reads and points to words in a book.
