Session 10 Assignment Questions
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Plan and provide a creative experience for a child. If you are not currently working in a child care setting, plan an experience for your child, a niece or nephew, or the child of a friend.
Use the worksheet that follows to guide you through the process of:
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Identifying the child’s needs
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Planning a creative experience for the child
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Evaluating the experience you planned
The Child
Select one child. The child is ______ year(s)/ month(s) old.
Observe this child to determine the stage of creative development and the child’s creative interests. This is easiest to see in the way the child uses materials when drawing, painting, modelling, or building with blocks. Select an experience in which the child chooses the materials and what to do with the materials.
What experience(s) I observed:
How was the child using the materials? (Be specific.):
Based on my observations, the child/s stage of creative development seems to be (put a check in the blank)
____ Basic Exploration
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Non-representative
____ Representative
