ECED 33 - Science in Early Childhood Education PDF

## ECED 33 - Science in Early Childhood Education ### How Children Learn Science - Play in Early Childhood - Play for a child is a natural, entertaining and a rewarding activity - Play contributes to the cognitive, physical and social well-being of children - Children learn important li...

## ECED 33 - Science in Early Childhood Education ### How Children Learn Science - Play in Early Childhood - Play for a child is a natural, entertaining and a rewarding activity - Play contributes to the cognitive, physical and social well-being of children - Children learn important life skills through play ### Types of Play and role in Early Childhood 1. **Large-Motor Play** - child uses its big muscles while playing slide, swing or engage in every type of movement possible - develops coordination, balance and sense of one's body in the space around it 2. **Fine-Motor Play** - Children play with small toys - Children indulge in activities like playing with puzzles and sorting objects etc. - Develops dexterity 3. **Mastery Play** - Children repeat an action in play and continue until they master it *Example:* Making a paper boat. - helps in the development of executive functioning skills 4. **Rules-based Play** - Children play with others conforming to a structure of preset rules - They enjoy the challenge of making their own rules and negotiating involved in adapting the rules for each play situation 5. **Constructive Play** - Children learn to use different materials, put things together and use strategies for reaching their goal *Example:* Playing with blocks or lego pieces - This play requires skill and imagination 6. **Pretend Play** - This play incorporates many other play types - rich with language, problem-solving and imagination 7. **Symbolic Play** - Children take an object at hand and convert it into toy they need through fluid process - requires fantasy and imagination 8. **Language Play** - Children develop mastery by playing with words, rhymes and songs - They tell stories and dramatize them - They are fascinated by foreign languages, especially when they are presented playfully in story, verse, or song 9. **Arts & Play** - Children integrate all forms of art into their play - They use materials at hand to draw, model, create music and perform puppet show and so on - They explore art forms to express their feelings 11\. **Rough and Tumble Play** - involves physically vigorous behavior, such as wrestling, falling and chasing - allows a child understand the limits of their own strength 12\. **Risk-taking Play** - Children extend their abilities - They know how far they can go without hurting themselves - Parents need to allow their children for some risk- taking play as it has an important role in child development ### Role of Play in Child Development - Play is important to a child's healthy brain development - Play allows children to express, and learn about feelings - Parents can improve their relationships with their children by learning how to play with them in a specific way using selected toys - Independence and emotional resilience of a child can improve through play ### Consequences of Play deprivation on Children - Increased depression - Diminished impulse control - Self-regulation - Increased addictive tendency - Fragility - Shallowness of enduring interpersonal relationships ### Pedagogy and Teaching - Teaching affects the whole behavior of the child by virtue of enhancing cognitive store, making him aware of affective store and improving conative store - Teaching should result in acquisition of Knowledge, skills and attitudes - It is movement from receiving to internalization to automatization - Content is delivered effectively to the learner's mind by virtue of Pedagogy ### Strategies - art and science of directing and controlling the movements and activities of the learners - In teaching this term is meant set of decisions to choose an approach, method, techniques and procedures by which objectives of teaching are realized in the class - "It is mental model in our head to attain the objective" **Some Strategies** - **Explanatory** – less delivery time, utilizes expositive strategies such as direct teaching, deductive process, teacher-controlled method and less student involvement - **Exploratory** – more delivery time, utilizes discovery strategies such as inquiry teaching, inductive process, teacher facilitated method, high student involvement active and interactive ### EXPERIENTIAL - "Learn by doing" and by reflecting on the experience - Experiential learning activities can include, but are not limited to, hands-on laboratory experiments, practicums, field exercises, and studio performances