Post by Aileen on Feb 12, 2017 14:39:06 GMT -8
In order to determine developmentally appropriate materials/equipment/activities for children, first take into account the actual and developmental ages through your observations and documentation. Then I think it's important to consider how it encourages their aspects of their development such as social, language, literacy, physical, spatial, and mathematical (numbers, counting, measuring, comparing). For example, a bucket of duplex blocks may stimulate toddlers in a variety of ways: they may dump out the blocks and put them back in the bucket and repeat this process several times, or they may put the blocks together with a peer. A caregiver may show the toddlers how to sort by color, and when it comes time to put it back, they may ask the toddler to show them where to put the blocks away so toddler has to try and remember where they found the blocks ("Was it on the bottom shelf of the top shelf? Was it next to the dinosaurs here on the bottom shelf? Thank you for helping clean up!" etc.).