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Module 4: Curriculum and Learning Environments

Planning Activities

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Activities for School-Age Children

School-agers learn very quickly and need to be challenged mentally. They have “tons of energy” for learning, even though many of them will say they do not like school.

Given the right environment, many children can concentrate for long periods of time on projects that interest them. They need time and space to discover and explore their interests. They can memorize easily. They love to categorize and classify things. They enjoy games, especially those that tap their capacity to memorize and strategize. They are bound by rules and the concept of fairness. They may spend more time considering, deciding, and debating the rules of a game than actually playing it.

You can promote learning in your program by creating developmentally appropriate environments in which each child learns what the world is like, how it works and what he or she is capable of achieving.

You can achieve this by taking these approaches:

  • High expectations for every child 
  • Know the importance of adult-child interactions
  • Planned child choice learning environments
  • Emergent curriculum; developmentally appropriate activities

At this stage, children often move from being concrete thinkers to being more reflective ones. They think more logically about world events, while still viewing them subjectively. They start to look at causes and begin asking more challenging questions.


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