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Download full textHanemann, Ulrike; McCaffery, Juliet; Newell-Jones, Katy; Scarpino, Cassandra – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2017
This report highlights the critical role family literacy and learning play in breaking down barriers between different learning contexts and engaging hard-to-reach adults and children in education. This report was developed as part of a family learning project initiated by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) in 2016. Based on the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Family Literacy, Intergenerational Programs, Barriers
Direct linkLee, Ai Noi – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2012
Parents can play a vital and active role in facilitating their children's science learning outside the formal classrooms. Parental involvement in their children's science learning process not only could enhance their children's learning motivation and interest in science, it could also help to strengthen the family bond when parents and children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Parent Materials, Curriculum Guides
National Math and Science Initiative, 2012
In today's high-tech world, math and science matter. Of the 10 fastest growing occupations, eight are science, math or technology-related. Whatever a child wants to do--join the military, join the workforce, or go on to college--math and science skills will be important. Become part of the equation to help one's child succeed now and in the…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Parent Materials, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Instruction
Leavitt, Midge – 1985
Prepared for parents of young children, this booklet provides information about the ways children learn in kindergarten, guidelines for judging the quality of kindergarten, and aids to understanding how kindergarten staff and classroom activities help children develop. Topics addressed include dramatic play, helping, pets, cooking, eating snacks…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Learning Activities
Children and Families, 1997
Provides two short articles on health topics for parents of young children. "Building Success Across the Generations" presents a profile of a Head Start parent and highlights the benefits of the program for her children and family. "Creating a Mealtime Environment for Learning" describes how to enhance children's social…
Descriptors: Child Health, Learning Activities, Parent Education, Parent Materials
Mokros, Jan – 1996
This book shows parents how to transform their family's involvement in mathematics with ways to expose their children to the mathematics they need. Parents learn to uncover the mathematics in their daily lives and how to participate with their children in mathematics learning. The book discusses mathematical literacy and chronicles a typical day…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Family Involvement, Learning Activities
Bradshaw, Nancy – 1984
The booklet presents suggestions for parents working as volunteers in their gifted children's classrooms. Parents are advised to allow the children to help plan and execute the activities, which are designed to be multidisciplinary, inexpensive, and adaptable. Activities described include explorations of the language, geography, and culture of…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Learning Activities
New Brunswick Dept. of Education, Fredericton. Student Services Branch. – 1992
This booklet for parents explains the activities that take place in kindergarten and the characteristics of kindergarten staff. Also discussed is the manner in which the activities and staff help children develop. Activities considered center around dramatic play; children helping themselves and others; pets; cooking; snacks; exercise; reading and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Dodge, Diane Trister; Dombro, Amy Laura; Colker, Laura J. – 1998
Information on how warm and responsive care can help shape infants' and toddlers' development and their ability to learn can be reassuring for concerned parents. This guide, in English and Spanish versions, presents quality child care as a partnership between the child caregiver and the parents with the primary goal of benefiting the child. The…
Descriptors: Day Care, Infant Care, Infants, Learning Activities
Silberg, Jackie – 1999
Scientists believe that the stimulation that infants and young children receive determines which synapses form in the brain. This book presents 125 games for infants from birth to 12 months and is designed to nurture brain development. The book is organized chronologically in 3-month increments. Each game description includes information from…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Rearing, Games, Infant Behavior
Lapan, Richard T. – National Career Development Association, 2008
The teen years are an excellent time to start thinking about a potential career and to investigate all of the different opportunities available. Motivating adolescents to become actively engaged in their own career development is not always easy, but this book makes it fun. Written for parents, school counselors, and counselors in private practice…
Descriptors: Career Development, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Motivation Techniques
Daniels, Ellen R. – 2003
Noting that family members are a child's first teachers and set the course for future success, this activity book of "literacy learning parties" presents 10 activities that can be used at home to practice the skills and ideas learned at parent literacy workshops. Presented in English and Spanish versions, the activity book discusses the importance…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Learning Activities, Parent Materials, Parent Student Relationship
Peer reviewedCohen, Stewart – Childhood Education, 1993
Parents can help children acquire ecological awareness through the use of varied inventories that focus on their family's ecological practices, and through the restructuring of such practices to promote conservation and recycling. Lists specific activities in which preschool and elementary school children can engage. (MDM)
Descriptors: Children, Conservation (Environment), Early Childhood Education, Ecology
PDF pending restorationSchottman, Elly, Ed. – 2001
Noting that children need help in learning to use wisely the computer and the Internet, this booklet, in English and Spanish versions, uses the characters from the public television program "Arthur" to suggest activities for parents to use with their children. The booklet begins with a read-aloud story about using computer games and the…
Descriptors: Children, Internet, Learning Activities, Multilingual Materials
Food and Consumer Service (USDA), Washington, DC. – 1996
Helping children make food choices for a healthy diet can be challenging. This book is designed as a resource guide and cookbook for parents to help them make healthful eating and cooking with children tasty, simple, affordable, and fun. The book is a collection of 50 recipes organized by season, and featuring family nutrition education…
Descriptors: Children, Cooking Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
