Hands-on learning! : more than 1000 activities for young children using everyday objects

Kaltman, Gwen Snyder. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781412970952 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
vi, 145 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press/a Sage Company, c2009.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Introduction -- A new way to design themes and activities for young children -- Suggestions for developing hands-on activities : literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, physical development, and creativity -- Boxes as a theme : highlighting some of the specific learning that can occur with each activity -- Balls -- Cotton balls -- Hats -- Index cards -- Mail -- Mittons and gloves -- Paint and paintings -- Paper -- Ribbons -- Shoes and footwear -- Spoons -- Toilet paper and other cardboard rolls -- Water -- Wheels -- Wood -- Appendix : a letter to families explaining the importance of hands-on learning.