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Read Appendix A: Loose Parts and Intelligent Playthings Categorized by Schema from the textbook: Emergent Curriculum in Early Childhood Settings – From Theory to Practice, 2nd edition, by Susan Stacey. (pages 218-225)
For each of the 15 learning schemas, write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. If you do not know what some of these materials are, please look them up.
Some of the materials are listed in different learning schema. Do not repeat materials for different schemas. Choose different materials for each category.
Note: Even though some of these materials are in Appendix A, do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
Student’s Name: _________________
ECE 321 – Spring Semester 2021
Connecting Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Train sets, buckles, Lego, harnesses, fridge magnets, stickers, marker caps, shoes
They may be exploring:
Connecting
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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3.
Large Play
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3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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Connecting Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Disconnecting / Deconstructing Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Cutting with scissors, knocking towers down, making play dough into small segments, tearing pages from books, taking apart electronics or devices, destroying objects, removing couch cushions, cutting hair
They may be exploring:
Disconnecting / Deconstructing
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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3.
Disconnecting / Deconstructing Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Trajectory Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Airplanes, car crashes, balls, sharks, birds, Superman, throwing toys, throwing food, jumping off things, knocking things down, expressive art, basketball, bubbles, explosions
They may be exploring:
Trajectory
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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2.
3.
Trajectory Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Enclosing / Enveloping Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Forts, hide and seek, putting toys to bed, burying items in sand, wrapping presents, eggs and nests, hats, being inside cupboards, painting entire canvas, Lego enclosures
They may be exploring:
Enclosing / Enveloping
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
1.
2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
1.
2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
1.
2.
3.
Enclosing / Enveloping Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Dynamic Vertical Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Elevators, balls, towers, dropping objects on purpose, scribbling up and down, building tall towers
They may be exploring:
Dynamic Vertical
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
1.
2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
1.
2.
3.
Dynamic Vertical Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Dynamic Horizontal Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Speed racers, traffic, running laps, trains, scribbling left and right, tennis, bowling, clapping, waving flags, vacuums, lawn mowers, tunnels, pushing strollers, building roads, shakers, swordplay
They may be exploring:
Dynamic Horizontal
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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2.
3.
Dynamic Horizontal Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Rotation / Circularity Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Putting trucks upside down, turning knobs on stereo and appliances, planets, baseball, racetracks, CDs, launching toys that roll, spinning in circles, washing machines
They may be exploring:
Rotation / Circularity
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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2.
3.
Rotation / Circularity Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Going Through a Boundary Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Making holes in things, poking with sticks, putting fingers in holes, arrows and bullets, swords, ice fishing, sewing, earrings, destroying safety gates, putting limbs through bars of railings
They may be exploring:
Going Through a Boundary
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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2.
3.
Going Through a Boundary Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Going Around a Boundary Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Drawing around the edge of paper, walking the perimeter of a playground or building, tracing, winding string around objects, tying knots, walking over or around obstacles, bracelets and necklaces, weaving, finger knitting
They may be exploring:
Going Around a Boundary
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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3.
Going Around a Boundary Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Transporting Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Having hands full of objects, full pockets, filling and dumping, dump trucks, bags, shopping carts, wheelbarrows
They may be exploring:
Transporting
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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Transporting Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Ordering / Positioning Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Putting toys in a row, arranging food on a plate, parking toy cars, sorting, sequencing by size, arranging furniture, straightening rows of shoes, stacking books
They may be exploring:
Ordering / Positioning
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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2.
3.
Ordering /Positioning Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Transforming Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Makeovers, body paint, fashion dolls, fantasy, mermaids, robots, shape shifters, werewolves, costumes, missing media, decorating, drawing on oneself, weather and sky, cooking, intentional mess making
They may be exploring:
Transforming
Loose Parts
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3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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3.
Large Play
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3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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3.
Transforming Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Orientation / Perspective Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Climbing everything, playing peek-a-boo games, sitting upside down, hanging from bars, looking through holes and transparent objects, standing on toys, crawling under tables, optical illusions, magic
They may be exploring:
Orientation / Perspective
Loose Parts
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3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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2.
3.
Orientation /Perspective Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Aggregating / Cumulative Effect Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Combining multiples of same objects, making finely detailed art, mosaics, or collage, making confetti, harvesting, scooping and filling, ball pits, record breaking, unusual weather events, statistics, lists, textiles, layering or polishing, assembly lines, shops, merchandise displays, patterns, making tall towers or deep holes, knitting or crochet
They may be exploring:
Aggregating / Cumulative Effect
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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2.
3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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2.
3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
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2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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2.
3.
Aggregating / Cumulative Effect Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
Sound Schema: Write down a minimum of 3 materials in each category from Appendix A, that you choose to have in your classroom. Do not repeat materials. Do not include food, Styrofoam, balloons, or animal products in your list.
If your child loves:
Shaking, banging, or tapping objects, musical instruments, crinkly paper, music, rhythm and rhyme, shouting into cups or tubes, animal sounds, noisy appliances
They may be exploring:
Sound
Loose Parts
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3.
Natural
Loose Parts
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2.
3.
Large Play
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3.
Recyclable/
Repurposed
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3.
Additional
Tools/Bases
1.
2.
3.
Commercial
Toys/Gifts
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3.
Sound Schema: In your own words, describe how you will obtain these materials and where you will place them in your classroom. (minimum: 100 words)
