Learning Environment Chapter 3

What is S.A.F.E playground?

• S- Safety

  A-Age appropriateness

  F- Fall surfacing

  E- Equipment

• S- Supervision

  A-Age appropriateness

  F- Fall surfacing

  E- Equipment maintenance

• S- Safety

  A-Appropriateness

  F- Flexibility

  E- Equipment maintenance

Choose example of graduate challenges equipment

• swings and slides with different size

• Fixed high climbers

• balance beam with different widths

Below are the reasons why outdoor areas are important EXCEPT

• Encourage physical movement and good health

• Encourage different levels of social participation

• Offer multiple opportunities for learning

• It is costing and difficult to maintain.

What is the purpose of having shady area at infant/toddler play spaces?

• Prevent exposure to sun and allow children to play during rainy days

• Teacher can rest under the shady area while children are playing

• to keep movable equipment under the shady area

Select type of plays that can be conducted at outdoor area.

• Construction play

• Imaginative play

• Solitary play

Inclusive playground is

• Areas which allow children with disabilities to play together with typical children.

• Areas that provide large outdoor equipment like monkey bar, swings, slide which encourage structured movement.

• Areas that are not defined by adults but provide a space for children to play.

• Areas that include diverse ground coverings and assortment of equipment designed for variety of ages and developmental levels.

Suggest THREE (3) suitable nature-based outdoor activities.

Answer explanation

Suggestion of answers:

1) Children build forts or fairy tale garden for pretend play

• Can be built by using large hollow blocks, branches, logs, rocks, stones and pebbles.

• Children can add other accessories such as tarps, cloth, wood scraps and bales to assist in creating forts.

2) Children create clay face sculptures

• Can be created by using sensory clay and loose parts of the natural materials.

• Children can add other accessories such as toys, sticks, dried leaves.

3) Build different structures at construction zone

• Can use different loose parts to build building

• can add accessories such as toy trucks, dump trucks and excavator.