Presented by Grounds For Play, explore how the value, types, and designing the types of play on the playground can benefit students in the classroom.
How Playgrounds Can Help Teachers Increase Student Learning Presented by Grounds For Play
Agenda
The Value of Play 1
2 Types of Play
3 Designing Your Play Space with the Types of Play
Unit One The Value of Play
Unit One: The Value of Play
• Essential to the social aspects of the academic setting. Helps children adjust to the academic setting socially by enhancing learning readiness and behavior What does research say about play? • Children are more attentive and productive. Children have time to refocus cognitively when they engage in short periods of play • Has great physical benefits. Play helps to counteract the sedentary time spent in the classroom
*From the American Academy of Pediatrics
Unit One: The Value of Play
Poll: Have you noticed higher classroom attentiveness after recess or a play activity?
Unit Two Types of Play nit T o f l
Unit Two: The Types of Play
Types of Play as Seen in a School Setting
Physical Play
Dramatic Play
Nature Play and Outdoor Classroom
Musical & Artistic Play
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Unit One: Types of Play
• Helps with muscle development. Strengthens the body and develops gross motor skills Physical Play • Provides children with a sense of environment and limitations. Affords many learning opportunities in adaptability, flexibility, and resilience • Sculpts the brain. Prepares the brain for learning by promoting enhanced concentration and learning in the classroom
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Unit Two: Types of Play
Dramatic Play
• Builds teamwork. Influences teamwork, improvisation, and social skills • Effects are seen in the classroom. Correlation between dramatic play and better literacy and reading skills • Helps develop important developmental skills. Impacts social, linguistic, emotional, and cognitive skills
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Unit Two: Types of Play
• Develops creativeness and self-expression. Children access their playfulness, creativity, and innovative spirits Music and Art Play • Helps develop much needed skills. Impacts fine motor and cognitive skills • Helps with academic performance.
Facilitates academic achievement by boosting memory, math, reading, and language skills
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Unit Two: Types of Play
Nature and the Outdoor Classroom
• Improves a child’s health. Impacts social, emotional, and physical health • Connects children with the natural world. Encourages children to explore and understand nature • Has many educational benefits. Directly correlates with the subjects of science, social studies, and even math
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Unit Two: Types of Play
Unit Three Designing Your Play Space with the Types of Play
Unit Three: Designing Your Play Space
Dramatic Play
Physical Play
Physical Play
Dramatic Play
Physical Play
An Outdoor Learning Environment is an extension of the classroom that enriches the learning experience of children from infants up to school-age through skill development in social, emotional, language, cognitive, and motor/physical domains.
5-12/School Age 2-5/Pre-School 6-23 Months/Toddler
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Unit Three: Designing Your Play Space
• Challenging but accessible. Items should be challenging for both crawling and walking infants but low to the ground for easy access and support Infants & Toddlers 6-23 Months • Support developing skills. Most infant and toddler play areas will speak to the physical type of play, developing fine and gross motor skills Introduce play panels for learning opportunities, such as shape recognition and sensory development • Provide high visibility for supervisors. Infants and toddlers require close supervision
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Unit Three: Designing Your Play Space
• Build self-esteem. Play area should build self-esteem by giving opportunities for success through skilled play activities, such as a shape identification panel Preschool 2-5 Years • Allow them to play creatively. Children should use their imaginations, explore emotions, and build language through dramatic play • Provide learning opportunities.
In addition to the much needed physical play, provide sensory and musical learning opportunities
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Unit Three: Designing Your Play Space
• Encourage physical activity. Slides, climbers, swings, and open spaces encourage the physical play a 5-12 year old needs for overall physical development School Age 5-12 Years • Choose the right components for school-agers’ rapid growth. Components should encourage upper body strength, cardiovascular fitness, coordination, and balance • Recognize social cues and norms.
The play environment should encourage role playing through dramatic play areas
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Unit Three: Designing Your Play Space
Free Response Poll: What type of play or play components are appropriate for school-aged children?
Q&A
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