[07201] Moving and Learning Across the Curriculum

Moving and Learning Across the Curriculum: More Than 300 Activities and Games to Make Learning Fun is now out in its' 2nd edition. Movement is the young child's preferred method of learning. This is because when a child physically experiences concepts, they understand them more completely and retain the information longer. Retention has been proven to increase when children's senses are involved in the learning process, and this book provides hundreds of activities that help to teach major concepts in the content areas of art, language arts, math, music, science, and social studies. The domains of child development are completely intertwined in the early years making it important to incorporate them all throughout the learning process. This book will show the early childhood professional how to educate the "whole child", covering all of the domains of child development which include physical, social/emotional, and cognitive. To truly educate the child, they must be recognized as thinking, feeling, moving human beings with the need to experience with all of their senses. Moving and Learning Across the Curriculum, 2e, provides the activities to achieve that level of learning with features including detailed lesson plans, outdoor alternatives, updated resources, and enhanced "curriculum connectors" with additional suggestions for children's literature and music. An ideal resource for the early childhood professional, this book offers everything needed to use movement as a teaching tool.


Section One: Art

Unit 1: Spatial Relationships

Unit 2:Shape and Size

Unit 3: Line

Unit 4: Color

Unit 5: Texture


Section Two: Language Arts

Unit 6: Listening

Unit 7: Speaking

Unit 8: Reading

Unit 9: Writing


Section Three: Mathematics

Unit 10: Quantitative and Positional Concepts

Unit 11: Number Awareness and Recognition

Unit 12: Counting

Unit 13: Basic Geometry

Unit 14: Simple Computation


Section Four: Music

Unit 15: Tempo

Unit 16: Volume

Unit 17: Staccato and Legato

Unit 18: Pitch

Unit 19: Mood

Unit 20:Rhythm


Section Five: Science

Unit 21: My Body

Unit 22: Hygiene

Unit 23: Nutrition

Unit 24: Seasons

Unit 25: Animals

Unit 26: Simple Science


Section Six: Social Studies

Unit 27: Self-Concept

Unit 28: Families and Friends

Unit 29: Holidays and Celebrations

Unit 30: Occupations

Unit 31:Transportation