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41) Creators
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From jewelry to science to fashion, African visionaries are bringing concepts to reality.
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We know that round spaces afford conversation, enclosed spaces afford intimacy, and high spaces afford achievement – for children as well as adults. However some features of a classroom might not be commonly identified for what they afford. In this video clip, four two-year-old children race back and forth between a wall mirror and a cushioned corner. A study of this clip reveals yet another affordance of space. Let’s call it “bounding events.”...
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In this video clip, four-year-old Dusk and his friends are interested in building a track for their racecars. As a provocation, some of the chairs are lined up in the classroom. The children see this line of chairs as a good location for their track. Dusk decides to extend the line of chairs and recruits his friends to help. Listen as he repeats the words “more, more, more!” Watch how Marty responds and how the boys get to work, spurred on by...
47) Evan Shows Jose
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In this video clip, four-year-old Evan shows Jose, a new child, his favorite parts of the playground. In the first segment Evan speaks and gestures to Jose, showing him how to put his foot next to the bottom of the wall. Next, Evan demonstrates to Jose, who stands holding onto a vertical pole, how to use the pole as a pivot for walking round and round. Jose tries this on another pole but bumps into horizontal bars that stop him from going all the...
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This video clip captures two four-year-old friends explaining strategies for writing their names to one another. These children have been in class together since infancy. It is clear that they are very comfortable and trust each other, enough to open themselves up to debate and to receive/offer feedback.
49) Stacking Tires
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This video clip follows a five-year-old as she exhibits Executive Function by devising and executing a plan to achieve her goal – building stacks made of heavy automobile tires.
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In this video clip, six four-year-old boys meet to rebuild a block structure that was photographed the day before. At two points in this video clip they go to the photograph for guidance. They do not have enough long blocks to finish the roof. At the teacher’s suggestion they look at the photographs and discover that the long blocks were used as the floor and a white tray served as the roof. Michael returns to the block structure to annex it with...
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This video clip shows a 10-month-old infant soothing herself when frustrated, focusing her attention in spite of distraction, and organizing her behavior into an effective sequence, thereby exemplifying an area of development called “self-regulation.” Although her attention is temporarily directed elsewhere, she leaves some mental space for the game so that she can pick up where she leaves off. Having these two levels of attention supports the...
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This video clip depicts one year olds using child-sized brooms, showing that it may be useful for them to confront non-trivial problems by using the big brooms and to be successful. Perhaps the very fact that these are grown-up brooms explains why the children love to use them and why they persist.
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This special version of Newborn Care includes all the same essential information as the standard version, but without any mention or visuals of artificial nipples or formula feeding. Itteaches the essentials of newborn care and the latest in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safety guidelines.See solutions to common challenges and hear information needed to make the best, and safest, choices for an infant. Content includes: appearance, senses...
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This special version of Newborn Care includes all the same essential information as the standard version, but without any mention or visuals of artificial nipples or formula feeding. Itteaches the essentials of newborn care and the latest in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safety guidelines.See solutions to common challenges and hear information needed to make the best, and safest, choices for an infant. Content includes: appearance, senses...
57) The Cold War
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This is a timeline of events in the history of the Cold War, from 1945 to 1991. The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after the end of World War II, as they tried to prevent each other from gaining too much power, with the threat of nuclear weapons looming.
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This video clip can be studied via several dimensions: the affordance of playground structures to support social play, the way the children adjust the rules of “Ring Around the Rosy” to fit the environment, and the way the children adjust their actions to avoid getting dizzy and their subsequent use dizziness as part of falling down.
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This video shows two year olds initiating a game of Peek-a-Boo on the playground. It begins with two toddlers playing Peek-a- Boo over a fence. While they are enjoying this game, a third child attempts to join by popping up on one side of the partition. When this is unsuccessful, he leaves. Other children join in and the rules change.
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In this video clip, five-year-old Miles tries to enter the play of two five-year-old girls, Jacey and Hannah. This is a classic example of “May I play with you?” Hannah and Jacey are pretending to be puppies. See how Miles uses pretense in order to gain acceptance into the girls’ play. He recognizes Hannah as the leader of the play, and works to establish communication with her.