Learning Environments
Caring Spaces, Learning Places:
Children's Environments That WorkAuthor(s): Jim Greenman (click on the author's name for more titles)
Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, photographs, and poetry. Here you will find best of current thinking about children's environments — 360 pages to challenge you, stimulate you, inspire you.
RRP $107.95
Creating Rooms of Wonder
Valuing and Displaying Children's Work to Enhance the Learning ProcessAuthor(s): Carol Seefeldt (click on the author's name for more titles)
What children see around them affects what and how they learn. Displaying children's artwork with thoughtfulness and care benefits children, teachers and families. Learn how to create rooms of wonder using the basics: colour, line, texture, composition, focal points and rhythm. Based on the theories of Reggio Emilia.
RRP $38.95
Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms (Due March 2012)
Designing and Implementing Child Centred Learning EnvironmentsAuthor(s): Eric Nelson (click on the author's name for more titles)
Filled with both simple and large-scale ideas, Cultivating Outdoor Classrooms provides support as you design and implement outdoor learning environments. Chapters examine the role of the outdoor classroom, working with children outdoors, getting support from stakeholders, getting started, evaluating the outdoor environment, program and implementation strategies, and more.
RRP $99.95
Designs For Living and Learning
Transforming Early Childhood EnvironmentsAuthor(s): Deb Curtis, Margie Carter (click on the author's name for more titles)
Drawing inspiration from a variety of approaches"from Waldorf to Montessori to Reggio to Greenman, Prescott and Olds", the authors outline hundreds of ways to create healthy and inviting physical, social and emotional environments for children in child care. Full-colour photographs of actual early childhood programs demonstrate that the spaces where children learn and grow can be comfortable for children, teachers and parents alike.
RRP $99.95
Early Learning Environments That Work
Author(s): Betty Exelby, Rebecca Isbell (click on the author's name for more titles)
The classroom environment is a vital part of the child's learning experience. Early Learning Environments that Work! explores how to manipulate furniture, colour, materials, storage, lighting, and more to encourage learning through classroom arrangement. Each chapter gives you detailed illustrations and photographs to help you set up or arrange what you already have in the classroom.
RRP $56.95
Environments A Beginnings Workshop Book
Author(s): Bonnie Neugebauer (click on the author's name for more titles)
This collection of articles from the Beginning Workshops section in Exchange – The Early Childhood Leaders’ Magazine features respected authors in the early childhood field such as Jim Greenman, Deb Curtis, Ann Pelo and Rust Keeler. Also included in this inspiring collection of articles are contribution from experienced Australian practitioners Wendy Shepherd and Jennifer Eaton from Mia-Mia Child and Family Study Centre, Macquarie University Sydney
RRP $53.95
Indoor and Outdoor Environment, The DVD
Plus Colour Viewer GuideThis DVD includes examples from a variety of High/Scope settings showing how adults can foster childrens initiative and creativity through a supportive learning environment, both indoors and outdoors.
RRP $79.95
Inspiring Spaces for Young Children
Author(s): Jessica Deviney, Lois Mitten Rosenberry, Mary Anne Rody, Sandra Duncan, Sara Harris (click on the author's name for more titles)
Inspiring Spaces for Young Children invites teachers to enhance children’s educational environments in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, colour, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points.
RRP $78.95
Learning with Nature Idea Book
Creating Nurturing Outdoor Spaces for ChildrenThe Guiding Principles from the Learning With Nature Idea Book provide a foundation for creating nurturing outdoor spaces for children. These field-tested principles for effective outdoor learning environments give you practical ideas for using nature as an integral part of children's learning whether you are adding natural components to an existing outdoor classroom, or designing a new space.
RRP $39.95
Look, Look ... Look Again Autumn
Author(s): Claire Warden (click on the author's name for more titles)
This 52 page book is designed to support adults in the consultation process about outdoor opportunities in the four seasons and how children need to look closely to see nature's beauty. Each section has stunning A4 photographs that gradually take the focus down to the small things that often engage children. To support discussion the author has offered some possible lines of development for each focus such as mud, grass and movement. The books include support notes on the consultation process and the methodology of working with children on using the senses to find out about the environment around them.
RRP $34.95
Look, Look ... Look Again Spring
Author(s): Claire Warden (click on the author's name for more titles)
This 52 page book is designed to support adults in the consultation process about outdoor opportunities in the four seasons and how children need to look closely to see nature's beauty. Each section has stunning A4 photographs that gradually take the focus down to the small things that often engage children. To support discussion the author has offered some possible lines of development for each focus such as mud, grass and movement. The books include support notes on the consultation process and the methodology of working with children on using the senses to find out about the environment around them.
RRP $34.95
Look, Look ... Look Again Summer
Author(s): Claire Warden (click on the author's name for more titles)
This 52 page book is designed to support adults in the consultation process about outdoor opportunities in the four seasons and how children need to look closely to see nature's beauty. Each section has stunning A4 photographs that gradually take the focus down to the small things that often engage children. To support discussion the author has offered some possible lines of development for each focus such as mud, grass and movement. The books include support notes on the consultation process and the methodology of working with children on using the senses to find out about the environment around them.
RRP $34.95
Look, Look ... Look Again Winter
Author(s): Claire Warden (click on the author's name for more titles)
This 52 page book is designed to support adults in the consultation process about outdoor opportunities in the four seasons and how children need to look closely to see nature's beauty. Each section has stunning A4 photographs that gradually take the focus down to the small things that often engage children. To support discussion the author has offered some possible lines of development for each focus such as mud, grass and movement. The books include support notes on the consultation process and the methodology of working with children on using the senses to find out about the environment around them.
RRP $34.95
Natural Playscapes
Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the SoulAuthor(s): Rusty Keeler (click on the author's name for more titles)
Natural Playscapes will inspire you to create extraordinary outdoor places for young children without highly complex play contraptions surrounded by a sea of wood chips or gravel... Places for children that tickle the imagination and surprise the senses...Places for young ones of all abilities to discover themselves and the world around them... Natural places where the entire space is filled with art, hills, pathways, trees, herbs, open areas, sand, water, music, and more... Where children find places to run, climb, dig, pretend, and hide, with opportunities to bellow or be silent.
RRP $109.95
Nature Kindergartens
Author(s): Claire Warden (click on the author's name for more titles)
In this new book, Claire Warden shares her view of Nature Kindergartens. Nature Kindergartens encapture an approach that provides naturalistic wild spaces that give children an environment in which they can play for very long blocks of time. It encourages a coherent, flexible and enriched natural curriculum and advocates that children are equal partners in their learning, collaborating with adults, being listened to and encouraged to apply their own logic to any given situation
RRP $69.95
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