Creative Materials and Activities for the Early Childhood Curriculum

For courses Early Childhood Education

Easy-to-use, practical, and innovative, this is the ideal research based guide for helping all children from infancy through grade five learn in, through, and with the arts, while meeting national and state standards. 

With a focus on teaching the creative arts and other subjects in ways that engage children’s minds and bodies, students learn about the teacher’s role from multiple perspectives from learning the importance of creativity and how to plan, implement and assess young children’s creativity and play-based activities. Included are over 400 standards-based activities, an abundance of children’s literature suggestions, arts-infused content-area chapters, differentiated strategies across age and grade levels, technology suggestions, inspiring photos, practical examples, lesson segments, case studies, guidelines, and practical tips that can be put to immediate use in the classroom. Also included are a number of user-friendly approaches for using arts-based learning to meet the needs of diverse learners.

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