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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.
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Depciting the importance of a good focus to a good game, this video clip shows children playing with a rimmed tray with a hole in the center. The empty container below clearly defines the goal of getting the ball to roll through the hole by tilting the tray. The tray is large enough to require a player on each side. To control the path of the ball the children need to split their attention between their own moves and their partners’ moves. An audience...
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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.
44) An Invented Game
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In this video clip, three two-year-old girls enjoy playing an invented game. The girls work to coordinate their movements, accommodate a third player, and lend structure to their play by singing refrains from a familiar nursery rhyme.
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What do the three-year-old children in this video clip gain from playing the game of following one another in a circle? This video clip highlights what children know and how they interact during ordinary moments, showing how some children whose strategies keep the game going for the others.
46) 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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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.
51) Tricycle Tour
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In this video clip, three-year-old Ella enjoys helping her younger friend Grace, have a ride on a tricycle. In her leadership role, Ella is challenged to guide the tricycle with a seated passenger. Notice that Ella is able to maneuver the tricycle more easily by pushing it backward.
52) Differentiation
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This video explores what differentiation is and gives three differentiating strategies to use in the classroom.
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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...
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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...
60) Sick Baby
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This video clip shows four year olds Emma, Brenna, and Julia caring for a baby with a ‘boo-boo’. Brenna animates the Mom (doll) who feeds the baby. Julia talks on the telephone. As the children explore their conceptions about friendship, illness, treatment, doctors, police officers, mommies, and telephone conversations, we learn how dramatic play supports children’s social and emotional development.