Children's Outdoor Learning Environment: A Practical Plan

This assignment presents a plan for an indoor/outdoor learning environment designed for children. It focuses on outdoor activities and provides a detailed breakdown of materials needed. The plan includes activities such as creating an alphabet dictionary using natural elements, sowing seeds, and engaging in a counting game. The assignment references relevant literature to support the proposed activities and emphasizes the importance of these experiences for the children's mental and physical development. The goal is to create a fun and engaging learning environment, enhancing children's skills in various areas such as language, mathematics, and understanding of the natural world.

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Plan for an indoor/outdoor learning environment for children
AREA ACTIVITIES MATERIALS FIELD
Outdoor Children of the play
school can be engaged in
an outdoor playful
learning activity of the
creation of a nature
alphabet dictionary. This
activity will involve all
the children to gather
things from their outdoor
surroundings
representing the
alphabets A-Z (Waite,
2017)
Collection of outdoor
things from the
playground. This will
furthermore enhance both
the mental and the
physical growth of the
children
ENGLISH
Outdoor Children of the play
school can be engaged to
understand the sowing of
the seed, the watering of
the plants and the
counting the plant of the
garden which will
enhance their
mathematics or the
calculation skills.
Equipment for sowing
seeds and planting
SCIENCE AND
MATH
Outdoor The egg counting game
and the number splash
Water balloons, eggs,
chalks and unlimited
MATHS

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game for the children of
the EDYF can be of fun
since it is a great way for
them towards the practise
of the number of the
identification, the
counting and the one to
one correspondence.
spirit of fun (Arthur et
al., 2015)

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References
Arthur, L., Beecher, B., Death, E., Dockett, S., & Farmer, S. (2015). Children in the context
of their families and communities. Programming & planning in early childhood
settings, 36-68.
Waite, S. (Ed.). (2017). Children learning outside the classroom: From birth to eleven. Sage.