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Texas Child Care, 2003
Highlights the importance of activities to build gross motor skills and provides hints for encouraging such activities. Specific areas of activities presented are: (1) running and jumping; (2) music games; (3) action games; (4) races; (5) bed sheets or parachutes; (6) hula hoops; (7) balls; (8) batting; (9) balance; and (10) creative movement. (SD)
Descriptors: Activities, Exercise, Games, Motor Development
Peer reviewedBenelli, Cecelia; Yongue, Bill – Childhood Education, 1995
Addresses importance of planned motor skill development, providing specific guidelines for adults working with three-, four-, and five-year olds. Describes the influence of motor development on cognitive, language, emotional, and social development. Suggests using verbal feedback, visual assistance, and demonstration for teaching motor skills.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Motor Development
Direct linkEssa, Eva L., Ed.; Burnham, Melissa M., Ed. – National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2009
Best practice is based on knowledge--not on beliefs or guesses--about how children learn and develop. This volume contains 20 overviews of research on aspects of young children's social, emotional, cognitive, or physical development, as well as how the findings can be applied in the classroom. Originally "Research in Review" articles in NAEYC's…
Descriptors: Research, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Development
Peer reviewedPica, Rae – Young Children, 1997
Argues that to truly educate the whole child, teachers must address the needs of the mind and spirit in terms of the social/emotional, creative, and cognitive domains and the many ways in which movement promotes development in these areas. Provides sample activities and sources for information to that end. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Early Childhood Education
Download full textJuelsgaard, Cheri – 1996
This activity book is designed to assist teachers in enhancing preschool children's motor skills, physical development, and social skills, and to build young children's self-esteem. The activities are designed for both disabled and nondisabled children. The first section of the book suggests specific activities in 13 categories of motor skills:…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Exercise, Exercise Physiology, Lesson Plans
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1991
Two guides for practitioners, one concerning early childhood curriculum and the other concerning the early childhood identification process are presented in this document. The curriculum guide, which constitutes the bulk of this package, approaches early childhood curriculum issues from the developmental perspective. The first section of the guide…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development
