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CURRICULUM PLANNING IDEAS "BUILDING" - Coggle Diagram
CURRICULUM PLANNING IDEAS "BUILDING"
SCIENCE
Children can explore gravity during block play, promotes cognitive development 🟨
Children can learn about cause and effect during block play, promotes cognitive development 🟨
Children can learn about weight, balance during block play, promoting motor and cognitive development 🟨 🟥
Activities that involve science can include building ramps with blocks and testing out gravity with different weighted items on the ramps. Helps develop cognitive reasoning 🟨
Building structures, towns, roads, buildings can help teach children about balance, symmetry, and mass. This promotes cognitive and physical developmental skills 🟨 🟥
WRITING
Alphabet blocks promote literacy skills and cognitive development 🟨 🟩
Animal blocks help promote literacy and cognitive skills 🟨 🟩
Children can write down block measurements and weights during play, promoting literacy and cognitive skills 🟨 🟩
Books about building structures, construction, landmarks, ancient builds can be used in lessons to promote literacy and cognitive skills 🟨 🟩
Labeling block structures and creations can help promote literacy and cognitive skills 🟨 🟩
WOODWORKING
Children can create a bird feeder. This promotes cognitive, social, and gross motor developmental skills 🟨 🟧 🟥
Children can build a tool box using nuts and bolts. This activity promotes cognitive, social, and gross motor skills.🟨 🟧 🟥
Children can build their own frames out of wood and other natural elements. This promotes cognitive, social, and gross motor skills.🟨 🟧 🟥
Creating a birdhouse can foster cognitive, social, and gross motor skills 🟨 🟧 🟥
Creating wooden blocks with numbers and letters can help develop cognitive, social, literary and gross motor skills 🟨 🟧 🟥 🟩
Children can create a wooden robot. This activity promotes cognitive, social, emotional, and gross motor skills 🟨 🟧 🟦 🟥
LARGE GROUPS
Large group activity can involve building a maze together. This promotes cognitive, social, emotional, and gross motor skills 🟨 🟧 🟥 🟦
Children can create a construction "dig site" outdoors, with the use of large wood logs and stones. This promotes cognitive, social, emotional, and gross motor skills🟨 🟧 🟥 🟦
Children can build large structures out of styrofoam. Inspiration can come from books/movies, poems, stories. This helps strengthen cognitive, social, communicative, and gross motor skills🟨 🟧 🟥 🟩
Children can use carboard and pipe cleaner to create houses, roads, and obstacle courses. This activity helps promote cognitive, social, emotional, communicative, and gross motor skills🟨 🟧 🟥 🟦 🟩
COMPUTERS/TECHNOLOGY
Build your own robot activity. Promotes cognitive, literary, and motor skills 🟨 🟥 🟩
Build your own car with electronically powered wheels. Promotes cognitive, literary, and motor skills 🟨 🟥 🟩
Build your own ecosystem out of natural elements while using technology/computer as a research tool. Promotes cognitive, literary, and motor skills 🟨 🟥 🟩
Explore software that focuses on building sites/construction where children can learn virtually and participate virtually but also as a group. Promotes cognitive, social, emotional. literary and motor skills🟨 🟧 🟥 🟩
Build codes on a computer/coding activities. Helps promote cognitive, literary skills🟨 🟩
Children can build a computer with the use of a Kano computer kit. Promotes cognitive, social, literary, and motor skills 🟨 🟧 🟥 🟩
BLOCKS
Can build various structures with blocks such as houses, cities, roads. This promotes cognitive and physical skills 🟨 🟥
Can build with different sized and shaped blocks, promoting cognitive skills 🟨
Addition and subtraction games promote cognitive thinking🟨
Alphabet blocks promote literacy and cognitive skills 🟨
Blocks can be used as a way of comparing quantities, height, mass. This promotes cognitive thinking 🟨
Can use Lego blocks, magnet blocks when planning activities such as building structures and items. This helps promote cognitive thinking and social skills when children build together 🟨 🟧