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PART 1

Purpose:
Apply your understanding of play theories, stages, and types by creating a play-based learning kit tailored to a specific age group and developmental goals.As part of this project, you will also create one real play material from your kit to deepen your understanding of how children interact with developmentally appropriate materials.

Directions:

Step 1: Choose Your Age Group and Focus

1. Select an Age Group:
   • Infants (02 years), toddlers (23 years), preschoolers (35 years), or early elementary (57 years).
2. Identify Developmental Goals/Milestones to guide your kit:
   • Cognitive, social, emotional, and language development.

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Step 2: Design Your Play Kit (Research + Planning)

1. Theoretical Foundation:
   • Choose one or two play theories (e.g., Piaget, Vygotsky, Parten) to guide your kit design.
     • Briefly explain how these theories inform your kit
2. Play Materials (3 total): Select 3 play materials that align with your chosen age and developmental goals. For each material, include:
   • • A short explanation of why it is developmentally appropriate.
     • How it supports skill development

3. Play Activity Guide (2 activities): Create 2 play activities using the materials. For each activity, describe:

• • • How the activity supports the developmental goals.
    • Adaptations for diverse learners (ELLs, children with disabilities)

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Step 3: Hands-On Creation Component

To apply what youve designed, you will build one material from your play kit using simple household items.

A. Create One Material

Choose one of the materials from Step 2B and make it in real life.
You may use inexpensive items (e.g., paper, tape, recycled containers, fabric, rice, loose parts).

Examples include:

• A sensory bottle
• Felt story pieces
• Homemade matching game
• Texture cards
• Loose-parts tray
• Simple puppets

B. Submit Photos

Upload 23 clear photos:

• One photo during the creation process
• One or two photos of the finished product

C. Reflection

Write a brief reflection (150250 words) addressing:

1. How would a child in your chosen age group likely use this material?
2. What developmental skills does it support?
3. What did you learn from making it?
4. What might you change or improve if you made it again?

Now that you have designed your play kit, you will showcase it in a digital slideshow presentation or video.

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Step 4: Create Your Presentation

Showcase your Play Kit in a digital presentation (PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, or video). Include:

Step 1:

• Age group and developmental goals

Step 2: Play Kit

• Theoretical foundation
• Your 3 play materials with explanations
• The 2 activity plans

Step 3: Hands-On Creation Component

• Photos of your hands-on material
• Reflection

  PART 2

  Ch. 4 DB – Discussion group 3

  Create a study aid related to chapter 4 (Atkinson-Shiffrin Model of memory) and share it with the class.

• Can use:- – Canva.com- Piktochart.com – Smore.com- make a Google website- video (like screencastomatic.com) (this means you post a video you created, not one that you found)- Word- Draw/Make yourself on paper and post a picture- PowerPoint (but don’t make a whole presentation)- Other programs that make infographicsTitle: topic of study aid
  • Your study aid should be helpful to the students in the class as you study for your exam (so making flashcards for yourself doesn’t count). Do NOT just restate what is said in the book, like a definition.
  • Embed your study aid in the post (so we don’t have to download it), or provide us with the link to your site.
  • Describe your aid in 100-150 words, and why it’s useful in understanding the concept. Bold term(s) for ease of grading.

  RESOURCES

• powerpoint linked below

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