The Garden Center - A Child-Created, Teacher Modeled Dramatic Play Center

In a preschool classroom, Lead Teacher Cynthia DeJesús involves children in all aspects of planning and developing a new dramatic play center that is related to their center’s ongoing investigation of nature. After a field trip, the children create props and set up their play area. Teachers model the roles of the people who work in such a setting and then children are able to play out those roles with a clear sense of purpose.
Segments:
0:04 Benefits of play
0:33 Choose a theme
0:52 Provide experiences
1:21 Field trip
1:50 Plan the center
2:44 Children create center
3:08 Teachers model roles
4:05 Children play in center
4:48 Connections to ELDS
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