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Natural Art Resources For Teachers
This website consists of a range of art and craft activities, that involve the use of natural materials and objects. This website also includes lesson plans for early learners from birth to 8 years, assessment criteria’s, a range of famous artists, links to the Early Learning Years Framework and the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and additional educational resources to assist teachers further.
The Early Years Learning Framework, the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the National Curriculum are documents which are provided for early childhood educators to assist them to further “extend and enrich children’s learning” (DEEWR, 2009, p. 5) and development. These documents are guides for educators on how to provide a range of “opportunities to maximise their potential” (DEEWR, 2009, p. 5) for future success. They are also referred to throughout this website.
Furthermore environmental education should be included in classrooms around the world as its very important for children to become sustainable as it "integrates concepts of human, social and economic development with environmental concerns" (Prince, 2010, p.274). For children, environmental education creates a "greater awareness of the need to act now to care for planet earth’s natural resources" (Prince, 2010, p.275). Therefore it is important for children, that natural resources are incorporated in the wide range of activities organised for them in classrooms.
The Early Years Learning Framework, the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and the National Curriculum are documents which are provided for early childhood educators to assist them to further “extend and enrich children’s learning” (DEEWR, 2009, p. 5) and development. These documents are guides for educators on how to provide a range of “opportunities to maximise their potential” (DEEWR, 2009, p. 5) for future success. They are also referred to throughout this website.
Furthermore environmental education should be included in classrooms around the world as its very important for children to become sustainable as it "integrates concepts of human, social and economic development with environmental concerns" (Prince, 2010, p.274). For children, environmental education creates a "greater awareness of the need to act now to care for planet earth’s natural resources" (Prince, 2010, p.275). Therefore it is important for children, that natural resources are incorporated in the wide range of activities organised for them in classrooms.
The EYLF outcomes explored throughout the website are:
- Outcome 1.2 – Children have a strong sense of identity: Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency - Outcome 4.2 – Children are confident and involved learners: Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating. - Outcome 4.3 - Children are confident and involved learners: Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another - Outcome 4.4 - Children are confident and involved learners: Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials. - Outcome 5.4 – Children are effective communicators: Children begin to understand how symbols and pattern systems work. |