Looking for new, creative ways to engage with your children? We have process art ideas, book suggestions, and sensory play activities that will keep your children learning, playing, and reading. Jaime is a children's librarian in the suburbs of Chicago.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
This material would be suitable for teachers who teach children (e.g., preschool teachers or elementary teachers) along with parents or caregivers.
Teachers can orient the use of the content in different ways:
they can use the material to have children select healthy food or simply they can teach children to make some food of their own.
they can do some self review of useful topics to guide the learning of young children. The website contains a collection of suggested review books. Therefore, teachers can easily revisit or learn new ideas about what to consider when working with pre-schoolers.
Technical Requirements:
internet
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The purpose of this website is to showcase creative ways to engage children of all ages using art, books, and sensory play activities.
Target Student Population:
Grade School, Pre-K
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
N/A
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The website collects relevant information to guide the education of pre-schoolers. Each piece of information will provide in service or pre- service teachers with enough insights on how to approach the learning of young learners. The content can be used in both ways: at any moment of teacher training or as self-instruction for in service professionals working in Pre-K. The content is easy to process.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
The learning objective of the website is to provide child educators with ideas searched from the web when doing lesson planning. Users of this content should be able to select the best information that fits their learners profiles. If used with pre-service teachers, the content can be adapted at any moment of their pedagogical exposure. If the material is used as self-instruction in terms of professional development, in service teachers can choose specific content as they find it appropriate for their children. The learning goals will be identified as readers go over the reason why the blogger set up the blog.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
The website is easy to navigate. It contains tabs with the information provided for the user. The author introduces herself and adds a clear description of her blog. Any user will browse the site without any challenging situation.
Concerns:
The site contained numerous advertisements; ads were distracting while browsing the site.
Creative Commons:
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