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Mind Map on Curriculum Areas, created by eskimocass on 27/06/2013.
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Curriculum Areas
  1. The Arts
    1. Medias: painting, music, dance, craft
      1. Effects children's; creativity, meaning making, imagination
      2. Maths and Science
        1. Child initiated play: Carruthers & Worthington (2011), lack of child-initiated play limits possibilities for children to explore, restricts opportunities for children to engage in dialogue.
          1. 3 non-hierarchical ways:
            1. Symbolic play
              1. objects/signs/meanings
              2. exploring and communicating
                1. mathematical thinking/graphical representations
                2. practical mathematical play
                  1. blocks, sand, water clay
                    1. 7 stages of Block building
                      1. Block Play: Pratt, Smith-Hil, Montessori
                  2. Wait and listen to children rather then looking for immediate outcomes
                  3. Froebels Gifts
                    1. Playful scribbles and marks can be related closely to intellectual development
                    2. technology and outdoor play
                      1. Technology
                        1. designing, media, computers and making
                          1. Can limit and stimulate creativity and socializing
                            1. Must be used wisely balance of indoor and outdoor activity
                            2. Outdoor play
                              1. Reasonable risk level neccessary in play t develop children's understanding of:
                                1. Self-awareness
                                  1. Without opportunities to challenge themselves children's understanding of safety would not develop
                                  2. Risk, physical competence and intellectual understanding
                              2. literacy and language
                                1. A love of language and learning develops as soon as the child is born
                                  1. Literacy in a play centered curriculum: talking, singing, sharing books, listening and telling stories, seeing and recognising enviromental print, writing/drawing, exposure to and use of ICT.
                                    1. Hill (2006) "language can be defined as a system of symbols that are used to communicate meaning."
                                      1. play is intimately tied to communication: gesture/action/talk/written symbols
                                      2. ACARA 3 strands: language/literacy/literature
                                        1. Key concepts
                                        2. Rich oral language/promote conversation
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