1. Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education Hands On Learning Week 6

2. Hands On Education What is Hands On Learning? How do you create Hands On educational opportunities? What materials do you need to create these opportunities? Where can Hands On Learning take place? What are some Hands On Learning Resources?

3. What is hands-on learning? Hands on learning is education presented through which children are able to experience education in a tangible fashion.

4. What is hands-on learning? Hands on learning is very important in the development of young children. They are in the preoperational stage and love to feel, touch and experience everything. They are still exploring the world around them as attempt to understand what they here, see, smell, touch and taste. Using all of these senses helps the children develop more understanding and knowledge.

5. What is hands-on learning? Hands On Learning creates opportunities for children to taste, see, touch and experience life, lessons and their educational experiences. This is very important to their development as they understand not only the concept but also the process. For young children the process is important than the product. The process is how they are doing it. The product is how it turns out, the outcome. In art and especially music, the process is more clear. However, in other subjects it is more difficult to determine the process and product. In Bible lessons, Sunday Schools lessons and any other lesson where biblical concepts are shared, the process is the stories, concepts and hands on learning experiences that help the children understand what information is genuinely being shared.

6. How do you create Hands On educational opportunities? Hands On Learning creates lessons that students an individually or as a group interact with the teacher, other students, learning concepts, and other adults.

7. How do you create Hands On educational opportunities? Young children learn best by doing. This form of learning helps them perform and learn the best way possible. The more they are able to experience lessons the better the children will do and the better they will learn. Creating opportunities for hands on learning should be integrated in every part of the classroom, Children’s Bible Study, Sunday School and Children’s Church. Integrating hands on learning is very simply done. Allow the children to create or make a giant Goliath, when learning about David and Goliath. Talk to them about their experiences, how they felt, how things looked. Help the correlate their emotions with those that David may have had. Allow t hem to role play and experience the situation. Likewise, in math when the are looking at shapes or numbers they should be able to create a triangle with a group of students, with string, using paper and by creating imaginative ways to create shapes/numbers. When adding using manipulatives.

8. How do you create Hands On educational opportunities? Creating Hands On lessons also integrates lesson and subjects. This helps link subjects, concepts, and ideas for young children. Integrating lessons also helps in creating hands on learning. Putting reading and social science together creates more hands on learning for one assignment, concept or teaching moment. Integrating learning is when subjects are intermingled in order to offer a more complete education and learning experience for children. Using integrating is not the only way to create hands on learning opportunities. Using what is natural for children to create learning experiences is very beneficial for children as well. Play as learning is a phrase that will be used repeatedly in education for young children.

9. What materials do you need to create these opportunities? The materials needed to create hands on opportunities for students are manipulatives, toys, puppets, paper, stuffed animals, art supplies, a creative mind and a great imagination. The types of materials that you may need for each lesson is going to be based on what your activity will be. Following the natural desires of the children will help you build a base of knowledge of what type of hands on learning materials may be needed. Look at your lesson and consider what would make that activity fun and help the children learn the most.

10. Where can Hands On Learning take place? Hands On Learning can take place at any time and in any place. There should supervision, rules and certain constraints to keep the children safe, but it should be extremely fun. Hands On Learning can take place anywhere, but should take place in a learning environment where the teacher can allow exploration, education and experimentation. Hands On Learning can take place at any time, but should follow the lesson, educational experiences or precede them. It should be in correlation with some lesson that the children are learning or plan to be learning.

11. What are some Hands On Learning Resources? Hands On Bible Curriculum is one hands on curriculum. The website for this curriculum is very helpful in developing hands on activities.

12. D.A.P. D.A.P.- Developmentally Appropriate Practices are defined by the National Association of Young Children (NAEYC), as those practices by educators that are appropriate for children in a particular age group based on their developmental growth determined by ages and stages and Piaget’s stages of development.

13. QSG 1.Write a definition, in your own words for hands on learning. Please consider all that hands on learning includes and write a definition as completely as possible. 2.In your own words, define the words process and product in relationship to hands on learning. 3.What makes learning hands on? 4.What is play as learning? 5.Name at least three Hands On resources.

14. Journal Do you believe that hands on learning is really beneficial to young children? Please explain in detail why or why not. It is very important that you understand where you stand on this issue and that whether or not you utilize all the information in this course, you need to be able to verbalize and articulate your ideas. Feel free to share your ideas with your colleagues, classmates and other educators.

15. Assignment Create a hands on lesson plan for any early childhood education age group. Specify the age group (i.e., 3s, 4s, 5s, 1 st grade, etc.), the subject/lesson, and write a clear lesson plan. Explain what you are doing and be clear about the hands on portion of the lesson plan. Do not assume the audience knows what you are talking about. Instead assume that you are writing the lesson plan for a person who does not have experience with teaching, young children, or lesson plans. Be specific and extremely clear. The grading for this assignment will be less merciful if you assume otherwise. Consider state standards, developmentally appropriate practices, and your own style. Integrated educational opportunities should be include, no subject can stand alone. Neither should any lesson/lesson plan be without some type o f underlying biblical concepts.