CHCECE037 Support Children To Connect To Their Natural Environment Assignment Sample

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·         Workplace Task 2: Supporting children’s knowledge, appreciation and understanding of the natural environment

·         Workplace Task 3:Engaging positively with the natural environment

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Textbook reference

Kearns, K. (2020)The Big Picture, 5th ed., Cengage Learning Australia, Melbourne.

Chapter10

Reading

NSW Government’s Environmental Trust. Climbing the Little Green Steps. Sustainability Education for Child Care Centres.

http://www.maroochycatchmentcentre.org.au/catchment/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Little-Green-Steps-Guide-for-Early-Childhood-Educators.pdf

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Task

Time frame

(mins)

Preparation for task

Target completion date

Complete

Task 1

60

Organisational Standards, Policies and Procedures

·         This task must be completed in the workplace using the organisation’s Sustainability Policy

21^st may 2023

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Task 2

60

Supporting children’s knowledge, appreciation and understanding of the natural environment

·         This task must be completed in the workplace

21^st may 2023

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Task 3

120

Engaging positively with the natural environment

·         Planning may be undertaken at home and completed in the workplace

21^st may 2023

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Supervisor notes and/or suggestions:

Task 1: Organisational Standards, Policies and Procedures

a.     Describe the goal/s of your sustainability policy?

The valuation of sustainability policy and its major goal is effectively defined as accumulated changes in the environment and society by the required work activity by the organization. The main goal of the sustainable policy is to provide brief changes in the community position with the required organization activity (Opferkuch et al. 2021). The development of changes defines and creates a reflection on the way of taking steps at the adequate range.

b.     With reference to the policy/procedure how does your service ensure that it is meeting Element 3.2.1 Outdoor and indoor spaces are organised and adapted to support every child's participation and to engage every child in quality experiences in both built and natural environments.

The development of understanding related to both "built and natural environments" has implied adequate detection of the use. the use of adequate work development based on the environmental changes and their requirement has elaborated with the child at the brief range. The use of "Outdoor and indoor spaces" for critically engaging children in sustainability has been implicated in the adverse range. The use of the required policy under the "Inclusive environment as 3.2.1" has also implied related to the effective aspects for the environment at the appropriate range (acecqa.gov.au, 2023).

c.     With reference to the policy/procedure how does your service ensure that it is meeting 3.2.3 Service cares for the environment and supports children to become environmentally responsible.

The analysis of the effective changes in terms of "Environmentally responsible" has defined the effective aspect that leads to developing work at the adverse range. It has implied that the "Environmentally responsible" can be defined as a major aspect to make children more responsible and create an impact on support to the children in an effective way (acecqa.gov.au, 2023). 

Task 2: Supporting children’s knowledge,appreciation and understanding of the natural environment- Examples

a.     Provide an example of how you supported children to use natural and/or recycled materials as part of the program.

·       The centre has a dry riverbed – I supported the children to add water to it to make little rivers.

·       I assisted the children to collect fallen leaves for collage. We discussed the colours and only picking the fallen leaves.

·       I worked alongside the children to help grow vegetables which are harvested and used for meals we took these to the kitchen for the chef to add to our lunch

·       We visited the charity shop to purchase items to reuse in the learning centres e.g., bowls, clothing, decorations. We spoke about reusing/recycling resources.

b.     Provide an example of how you have supported children’s understanding of how to care for animals, plants and insects.

·       Animals -The centre has 3 chickens –I assisted the children to assist in their care – feeding, watering, replacing straw, collecting eggs.

·       Plants -The children care for the gardens – we spent the afternoon watering, weeding, planting and harvesting.

·       Insects -I assisted the children to add food scraps to the worm farm to feed the worms and create worm wee for the gardens.

c.     Provide an exampleof how you have supported children’s knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples use of the natural environment.

·       We read stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples respect for animals. I read the storyThe Little Corroboree Frog and spoke to the children about the drawings in the story, the colours of the frogs and how to care for the environment and how this is very important especially for Aboriginal people who look after the land.

·       Aboriginal Elders are regularly invited to visit the centre and share information with the children about bush tucker.

·       Today the educator said she was going to tell a story in a different way.She talked to the children about how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples sometimes tell stories by using sticks and the land.She then invited the children to go outside where she told a story using a stick and drawing pictures and symbols in the dirt and sand. I was able to join the experience and support the children to be involved with the story and supporting the children to make their symbols with the sticks.

d.     Provide an example of how your service explores nature or sustainable practices in the local community

·       Each week a group of children walk to the community gardens to assist the gardener, tend to the vegetables.This includes pulling out weeds, watering the plants and harvesting them to take back to the service to cook for lunch.

·       The children collect bottles, and we walk to the local return n earn recycling centre to deposit them.

e.     Provide an example of how nature play supports the domains of development (e.g., physical, social, emotional and mental health)

·       Our play spaces include areas for running freely and opportunities for ball play to expend energy and develop skills.

·       Opportunities for resting bodies and hiding spaces are included as well as different play spaces catering for different stages of development e.g., baby and toddler areas.Educators are engaged with children to support their needs through conversation.

f.      Provide an example of how you have supported children within the daily routine to respect the natural environment.

·         Supported children to empty their drink bottles pouring excess water onto gardens.

·         Putting food into bins for composting, supporting children to take the leftovers fromlunch to the compost bins

·         Food scraps for chickens, taking the food scraps out to the chicken coop and assisting children to place this in there.

·         Assisting children or support them to turn off taps, while on bathroom supervision.

·         Educating children to use half and full when flushing the toilets.

g.      Provide an example of how you have modelled respect and appreciation for different environments made by people or animals within the service

·         The children and I washed and swept the cubby house so it was ready for everyone to use

·         The children and I worked together to remove the old vegetables, weed the garden, add compost and get the garden beds ready for new plants

·         Some of the children have been riding on the verandah and running into the poles, we looked together at the scrapes and scratches on the poles and bikes. We discussed together why bikes need to stay on the bike track

·         Some of the children found a cocoon on the tree, we discussed that it was a caterpillar’s home as it turns into a butterfly and why we need to leave it alone. We made a sign to let the other children know.

Task 2: Supporting children’s knowledge, appreciation and understanding

of the natural environment

a.     Provide an example of how you supported children to use natural and/or recycled materials as part of the program.

Provide used clothes, toys and other accessories to the charity by visiting to any of the social welfare and comfort children at the place by providing brief information related to the recycling and reuse of the product

b.     Provide an example of how you have supported children’s understanding of how to care for animals, plants and insects.

Animals - Near the house, it has Ashram where people took injured animals and voted to give care to these injured animal

Plants - watering to the house plan giving proper instruction related to the harvest and other required aspect is the major way to define information about plant care 

Insects - It has assisted the children to assist about care to the warm for better creation of worm wee at the garden

c.     Provide an example of how you have supported children’s knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples use of the natural environment.

The knowledge regarding the "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples" has provided stories to the child related to this aspect and told them to search about these and write a brief summary. 

d.     Provide an example of your service how your service explores nature or sustainable practices in the local community

The sustainable practices related to the environment have been acquired with adequate tasks related to watering plants to help parents in gardening to grow plants at the adequate range. 

e.     Provide one example of how nature play supports the domains of development (e.g., physical, social, emotional and mental health).

The nature play space has included effective valuation related to running in the garden, playing football, volleyball and other nature play to support domain development at the effective and appropriate range. 

f.     Provide an example of how you have supported children within the daily routine to respect the natural environment

The respect for the natural environment has included effective development of work activity in daily life for example giving leftover bread to cows, putting leftover food in the right dustbin and other related ranges. 

g.    Provide an example of how you have modelled respect and appreciation for different environments made by people or animals within the service (e.g., cubby house, vegetable garden, paths, buildings, butterfly cocoon, insects home).

Do cleaning of the garden with children from the old plants and other associated aspects based on leaves, weeds and other aspects to prepare the garden for plantation.  

Workplace Supervisor tip

Please allocate the relevant number of children to the student and identify when and where the experience can be implemented.

Student tip

If planning your own experience, you must complete all the sections of the plan template - use the prefilled experiences as a guide. You must consider:

·         the goal/s and learning outcomes of each play experience which must connect to supporting children connect to their natural environment.

·         your role in guiding and facilitating children’s play and learning as this will build your relationships with children

·         the opportunities the experiences offers children to make decisions and work collaboratively

·         when and where the play experience will be set up

·         safety requirements

Select 1

Experiences

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‘How the Birds Got Their Colours’ by Mary Albert

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Making Mud

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Own choice

Pinterest

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·         Mud Paint: EC Creative Arts

Task 3 Part A: Planned Experience

How the Birds Got their Colours

Supervisor approval

Experience Plan Approved: o Yes  oNo

Planned for

? Individual child

? Small group

? Large group

Child’s name

N/A

Child’s age/Age group

Goal

To develop an appreciation for dream time stories and connection to land

To develop understanding of caring for others

Date

Planned from

? Child’s interests

? Educator (Intentional teaching)

Experience plan

Location

? Indoors

? Outdoors

Timing

? Free play

? Group-time

? Routine task

Preparation

·      Read and become familiar with the story ‘How the Birds Got Their Colours’ by Mary Albert

·      Gather images of native birds in the story

·      Prepare quiet space in the outdoor area

·      Findand learn a song about birds to teach the children e.g., Kookaburra.

Equipment required

·         Story How the Birds Got Their Colours’ by Mary Albert

·         Images of Native birds in the story

Experience description – what you will do

Beginning (How will the child/ren be introduced to the experience?)

·      I will gather the children and tell them we are going to learn more about how Aboriginal peoples’ share stories that connect to their culture.

·      I will tell them we are sitting on Aboriginal land and tell them the name of the local custodians.

·      I will acknowledge any Aboriginal children/families/educators who are included in the experience

·      I will invite a group of children to the area and show them the images of the native birds

·      I will ask the children if they had seen any of these birds and respond to their answers.

·      I will ask them an open- ended question e.g. I wonder how they all got their colours, accepting all answers

·      I will use both verbal and non-verbal communication to connect to each child and the group

·      I will then tell the children we are going to learn a new song about a native bird and sing e.g.,Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree

·      I will then show the children the cover of the book and talk about the title and pictures of the book

·      I will tell them it is a dreamtime story and how these stories are shared in the Aboriginal culture and that it is a very old story connecting it to how stories might be told in their own families

·      I will tell them it is also a story about caring and helping each other.

Middle (How will you support the child/ren?)

·      I will read the story to the children talking about

-          How all the birds were the same colour

-          How the birds were friends and then one of them became injured

-          How one friend helped the other and his beak spread colour

-          I will ask questions to promote inquiry such as “I wonder, what do you think, how might the bird feel”

-          How might we help the crow be friendly

·      I will conclude the book by asking the children to choose a favourite colour/bird and mention again about the “dreamtime stories” and how they connect to the culture.

End (How will you conclude the experience?)

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I will ask the children to recall parts of the story and ask them what they might do if one of their friends were hurt, what might they do or how could they care for them.

·      I will invite the children to the creative area where they could make their own native bird and choose the different colours

·      I will conclude by choosing 2 children at a time and saying a short rhyme

Evaluation of the experience

Was the goal achieved? Describe what you saw and heard the child/ren say and do during the experience relating to the goal.

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

? LO1: Children have a strong sense of identity

? LO2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

? LO3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

? LO4: Children are confident and involved learners

? LO5: Children are effective communicators

Developmental domains

? Cognitive

? Social

? Emotional

? Physical

? Language

Future planning

(Follow up activity and description)

? Extend the interest

? Vary the experience

? Repeat the experience

? Work on a new skill

Comments

Reflection on your role as an educator in the experience

(Which strategies did you use with the child during the experience?)

? Role model

? Play partner

? Mediator

? Collaborator

? Provisioner/facilitator

? Information giver

? Advocate

? Evaluator

? Supervisor

? Supporter/encourager

Comment on your role as an educator (what you did well, what you found challenging, what surprised you, the skills/knowledge you need to develop).

Task 3 Part A: Planned experience

Making Mud using natural materials

Supervisor approval

Experience Plan Approved: o Yes  oNo

Planned for

? Individual child

? Small group

? Large group

Child’s name

N/A

Child’s age/Age group

Goal

The children will create their own paint through mixing natural ingredients

Date

Planned from

? Child’s interests

? Educator (Intentional teaching)

Experience plan

Location

? Indoors

? Outdoors

Timing

? Free play

? Group-time

? Routine task

Preparation

·       Print or save images of Aboriginal art

·       I will prepare an outdoor table and containers

·       Prepare soil in large bowl and arrange all equipment

Student tip

Experiment with making a batch of mud paint so that you are aware of how much water/powder paint is required for children’s success.

Be aware of where handwashing facilities are (have soap, water, towel next to experience)

Equipment required

·         Jars to store leftover paint, soil, basin, water, powder paint (be aware of concentration of paint), containers for making mud paint

·         Spoons, aprons as required, small jugs, a large sheet of paper or cardboard.

·         A printed copy of the recipe sheet and Aboriginal Art(or you may like to use a tablet to be more sustainable rather than printing).

Experience description – what you will do

Beginning (How will the child/ren be introduced to the experience?)

·         I will gather the children and tell them we are going to learn more about we can connect to Aboriginal culture.

·         I will tell them we are sitting onAboriginal land and tell them the name of the local custodians.

·         I will acknowledge any Aboriginal children/families/educators who are included in the experience.

·         I will display Aboriginal art and discuss how paint is made from natural materials e.g., soil, bark, stone.

·          I will gather the children and show them the recipe and ask if they can predict what they are making. I will tell them it is like making a cake.

·         I will show the “ingredients” (soil, water, powder paint).

·         I will talk through the directions (steps to make the mud paint) See recipe card.

·         I will assist the children mix their own batch.

Middle (How will you support the child/ren?)

·         I will observe and offer support as needed

·         I will ask questions about the correct consistency

·         I will introduce vocabulary such as runny, dry, measuring

·         I will talk to the children about how mud is used in different ways in the images

End (How will you conclude the experience?)

·         After the paint has been mixed and the child is happy with the result, the children can experiment with the paint on the cardboard.

·         The remaining paint will be put into a jar for a follow up experience

·         Talk about how they could use the paint with cardboard and painting implements.

·         I will conclude by showing the children images of different colours (ochre) that is used in Aboriginal culture and ask them to try and find these colours when they are playing outdoors

Evaluation of the experience

Was the goal achieved? Describe what you saw and heard the child/ren say and do during the experience relating to the goal.

The evaluation of the required goal based on the "Planned experience Making Mud using natural materials ' has implied adequate development of the work that has helped in developing knowledge and understanding related to each related range in an effective way (Cheema et al. 2020). The analysis of the required developed range has implicated state work related to planning over the making mud experience can help in exploring knowledge at the effective range.  

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

? LO1: Children have a strong sense of identity

? LO2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

? LO3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

? LO4: Children are confident and involved learners

? LO5: Children are effective communicators

Developmental domains

? Cognitive

? Social

? Emotional

? Physical

? Language

Future planning

(Follow up activity and description)

? Extend the interest

? Vary the experience

? Repeat the experience

? Work on a new skill

Suggested Follow up

The use of the required development based on the understanding related to mud experience has implied to "Extend the interest" in the natural materials. 

Reflection on your role as an educator in the experience

(Which strategies did you use with the child during the experience?)

? Role model

? Play partner

? Mediator

? Collaborator

? Provisioner/facilitator

? Information giver

? Advocate

? Evaluator

? Supervisor

? Supporter/encourager

Comment on your role as an educator (what you did well, what you found challenging, what surprised you, the skills/knowledge you need to develop).

As an educator, it has effectively been defined that the knowledge and experience has been increased based on the effective educator as an "Evaluator" can be the effective aspect that can help in lead work in the defined and appropriate way.

Student tip

Note: When planning your own experiences, you must complete all the sections of the experience plantemplate. Use the experience plans provided as a guide. You may also like discuss your plans with your assessor if you need extra assistance.

Task3: Part A Planned experience

Experience planning template (Student’s own choice)

Supervisorapproval

Experience Plan Approved: o Yes  oNo

Planned for

? Individual child

? Small group

? Large group

Child’s name

N/A

Child’s age/Age group

Goal

Date

Planned from

? Child’s interests

? Educator (Intentional teaching)

Experience plan

Location

? Indoors

? Outdoors

Timing

? Free play

? Group-time

? Routine task

Preparation

Equipment/Safety Requirements

Experience description – what you will do

Beginning (How will the baby/babies be introduced to the experience?)

Middle (How will you support the baby/babies)

End (How will you conclude the experience?)

Evaluation of the experience

Was the goal achieved? Describe what you saw and heard the baby/babies say and do during the experience relating to the goal.

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

? LO1: Children have a strong sense of identity

? LO2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

? LO3: Children have a strong sense of well-being.

? LO4: Children are confident and involved learners

? LO5: Children are effective communicators

Developmental domains

? Cognitive

? Social

? Emotional

? Physical

? Language

Future planning

(Follow up activity and description)

? Extend the interest

? Vary the experience

? Repeat the experience

? Work on a new skill

Suggested follow-up

Reflection on your role as an educator in the experience

(Which strategies did you use with the baby during the experience?)

? Role model

? Play partner

? Mediator

? Collaborator

? Provisioner/facilitator

? Information giver

? Advocate

? Evaluator

? Supervisor

? Supporter/encourager

Comment on your role as an educator (what you did well, what you found challenging, what surprised you, the skills/knowledge you need to develop).

Student tip

If planning your own experience, you must complete all the sections of the plan template - use the prefilled experiences as a guide. You must consider:

·         the goal/s and learning outcomes of each play experience which must connect to supporting children connect to their natural environment.

·         your role in guiding and facilitating children’s play and learning as this will build your relationships with children

·         the opportunities the experiences offer for children to make decisions and work collaboratively

·         when and where the play experience will be set up

·         safety requirements.

Select 1

Experiences

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‘Nature Treasure Hunt

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Mini Beasts

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Own choice

Pinterest

Visit the Kearns Pinterest page for more ideas to help you with this task.

·         EC- Nature, recycling and sustainability board

Reading

NSW Government’s Environmental Trust.Climbing the Little Green Steps. Sustainability Education for Child Care Centres.

http://www.maroochycatchmentcentre.org.au/catchment/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Little-Green-Steps-Guide-for-Early-Childhood-Educators.pdf

Task 3:Part B Planned experience

Nature Treasure Hunt

Supervisor approval

Experience Plan Approved: o Yes  oNo

Planned for

? Individual child

? Small group

? Large group

Child’s name

N/A

Child’s age/Age group

3-6 years

Goal

The children will learn to observe detail in the environment

Date

Planned from

? Child’s interests

? Educator (Intentional teaching)

Experience plan

Location

? Indoors

? Outdoors

Timing

? Free play

? Group-time

? Routine task

Preparation

·      Collect natural things found in the outside environment such as leaves, flowers, herbs, seed pods, feathers, bark

·      Paste or stick the objects onto a piece of cardboard

Equipment required

·      Cardboard sheet of natural objects and print of rhyme above

Experience description – what you will do

Beginning (How will the child/ren be introduced to the experience?)

·       I will sit the children on the mat and settle them with the finger play ‘Five Little Leaves’

·       I will then show them the cardboard sheet with natural objects.

·       I will tell the children I collected the objects from the outdoor playground.

·       I will point to each object and have the children tell me what it is, what they can see such as colour, shape, size.

·       I will ask if they can suggest where in the outdoor playground it could be found.

·       I will then let the children know that we are going on a hunt to find the object in the playground – we are going to find an object that is the same.

Middle (How will you support the child/ren?)

·       I will introduce children to the word nature by telling them we are going on a nature walk

·       I will highlight to the children about caring for our outdoor environment and how when looking for the objects we need to be aware of only taking objects from the ground rather picking them off the tree or plant.

·       I will draw their attention to the object and look at each item with them, talk about shape, texture (how it feels) and where it might have come from.

·       I will guide the children to the area and match the objects with the children.

End (How will you conclude the experience?)

·       I will sit down with the children and review where the objects were found, look at the details of each object and talk to the children about what we could do with the materials once collected.

·       I will reinforce how nature is important to us and we must care for the environment and only take what has fallen or what we need

Evaluation of the experience

Was the goal achieved? Describe what you saw and heard the child/ren say and do during the experience relating to the goal.

The required evaluation has implied that it has helped in conducting work at the effective range. It has implied that the work valuation based on the ineffective data implication has stated work and created a reflection on the understanding link between the natural range and "Nature Treasure Hunt"

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

? LO1: Children have a strong sense of identity

? LO2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

? LO3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

? LO4: Children are confident and involved learners

? LO5: Children are effective communicators

Developmental domains

? Cognitive

? Social

? Emotional

? Physical

? Language

Future planning

(Follow up activity and description)

? Extend the interest

? Vary the experience

? Repeat the experience

? Work on a new skill

Suggested follow up

The use of the required development based on the understanding related to "Nature Treasure Hunt" has implied to "Vary the experience" in the natural materials and create an effect on understanding the knowledge at the effective range.  

Reflection on your role as an educator in the experience

(Which strategies did you use with the child during the experience?)

? Role model

? Play partner

? Mediator

? Collaborator

? Provisioner/facilitator

? Information giver

? Advocate

? Evaluator

? Supervisor

? Supporter/encourager

Comment on your role as an educator (what you did well, what you found challenging, what surprised you, the skills/knowledge you need to develop).

As an educator, it has effectively defined major challenges related to the "Nature Treasure Hunt" as the description of the understanding and brief implication of the sacred work range. 

Task 3:Part B Planned experience

Mini beasts

Supervisor approval

Experience Plan Approved: o Yes  oNo

Planned for

? Individual child

? Small group

? Large group

Child’s name

Child’s age/Age group

Goal

The children will develop a respect for other living creatures in our environment

Date

Planned from

? Child’s interests

? Educator (Intentional teaching)

Experience plan

Location

? Indoors

? Outdoors

Timing

? Free play

? Group-time

? Routine task

Preparation

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Prepare a poster with images of minibeasts to introduce the experience.

Equipment required

·  Poster, magnifying glass, camera

Experience description – what you will do

Beginning (How will the child/ren be introduced to the experience?)

·  I will invite the children to come and look at poster and introduce the magnifying glass and show how to use it.

·  I will ask the children if they have seen any of the mini beasts.

·  I will discuss with them the mini beasts and ask the child to suggest where they might be found in the outdoor environment.

·  We will then go searching in the garden for mini beasts and if one is found on the poster tick them off

·   If mini beasts are found, I will ask permission to take a photo of the child next to the mini beast and use for a follow up story.

Middle (How will you support the child/ren?)

·  I will encourage participation and take the child’s lead if needed.

·  I will reinforce caring for our natural environment and safety and that all creatures need to be cared for and have a place.

End (How will you conclude the experience?)

·  Look at photos of what has been found andask children if they can think of any mini beasts that were not found and where they might live.

Evaluation of the experience

Was the goal achieved? Describe what you saw and heard the child/ren say and do during the experience relating to the goal.

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

? LO1: Children have a strong sense of identity

? LO2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

? LO3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

? LO4: Children are confident and involved learners

? LO5: Children are effective communicators

Developmental domains

? Cognitive

? Social

? Emotional

? Physical

? Language

Future planning

(Follow up activity and description)

? Extend the interest

? Vary the experience

? Repeat the experience

? Work on a new skill

Suggested Follow up

Reflection on your role as an educator in the experience

(Which strategies did you use with the child during the experience?)

? Role model

? Play partner

? Mediator

? Collaborator

? Provisioner/facilitator

? Information giver

? Advocate

? Evaluator

? Supervisor

? Supporter/encourager

Comment on your role as an educator (what you did well, what you found challenging, what surprised you, the skills/knowledge you need to develop).

Task 3: Part BPlannedOutdoor experience –Experience plan template

Student’s own choice

Supervisor approval

Experience Plan Approved: o Yes  oNo

Planned for

? Individual child

? Small group

? Large group

Child’s name

Child’s age/Age group

Goal

Date

Planned from

? Child’s interests

? Educator (Intentional teaching)

Experience plan

Location

? Indoors

? Outdoors

Timing

? Free play

? Group-time

? Routine task

Preparation

Equipment required

Experience description – what you will do

Beginning (How will the child/ren be introduced to the experience?)

Middle (How will you support the child/ren?)

End (How will you conclude the experience?)

Evaluation of the experience

Was the goal achieved? Describe what you saw and heard the child/ren say and do during the experience relating to the goal.

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

? LO1: Children have a strong sense of identity

? LO2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

? LO3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

? LO4: Children are confident and involved learners

? LO5: Children are effective communicators

Developmental domains

? Cognitive

? Social

? Emotional

? Physical

? Language

Future planning

(Follow up activity and description)

? Extend the interest

? Vary the experience

? Repeat the experience

? Work on a new skill

Comments

Reflection on your role as an educator in the experience

(Which strategies did you use with the child during the experience?)

? Role model

? Play partner

? Mediator

? Collaborator

? Provisioner/facilitator

? Information giver

? Advocate

? Evaluator

? Supervisor

? Supporter/encourager

Comment on your role as an educator (what you did well, what you found challenging, what surprised you, the skills/knowledge you need to develop).

Student tip

·         Ideas for discussing children’s impact on the environment could include:

o   Activities related to saving water

o   Activities related to water pollution and the impact on sea animals

o   Activities related to caring for plants and soil

o   Activities related to climate change such as reducing energy use

·         Useful websites:

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/kids-guide-to-climate-change/

https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/earth/ask-a-scientist-about-our-environment/how-can-kids-help-prevent-global-warming

https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/85849936627579959/

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/gardening-for-children

https://www.constellation.com/energy-101/energy-choice/energy-activities-for-kids.html

https://www.science-sparks.com/clean-it-up-oil-spill-experiment/

Textbook reference

Kearns, K. (2020)The Big Picture, 5th ed., Cengage Learning Australia, Melbourne.

Chapter 10(pp.363-364)

Pinterest

Visit the Kearns Pinterest page for more ideas to help you with this task.

·         Nature, recycling and sustainability Board

Task 3: Part C Planned indoor experience - Experience plan template

Student’s own choice

Supervisor approval

Experience Plan Approved: o Yes  oNo

Planned for

? Individual child

? Small group

? Large group

Child’s name

Martin Louis

Child’s age/Age group

Between 15-20

Goal

Proper planning of the indoor experience based on engaging with the natural environment.

Date

21^st May 2023

Planned from

? Child’s interests

? Educator (Intentional teaching)

Experience plan

Location

? Indoors

? Outdoors

Timing

? Free play

? Group-time

? Routine task

Preparation

The preparation of the plan is based on exploring information related to the importance of sustainability in the current environmental community. 

Equipment required

It has required proper learning equipment such as books and related articles and for practical range needs plantation tools. 

Experience description – what you will do

Beginning (How will the child/ren be introduced to the experience?)

The child or children can gain experience by taking participation in this task. 

Middle (How will you support the child/ren?)

Helping in the task and increasing motivation can be the only support for children. 

End (How will you conclude the experience?)

The gained skill and effective experience to conduct work is the only way to conclude the required gained experience at the adverse range. 

Evaluation of the experience

Was the goal achieved? Describe what you saw and heard the child/ren say and do during the experience relating to the goal.

The required goal to develop information about the task has effectively been achieved after completion of the task at the adverse range. 

Links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF)

? LO1: Children have a strong sense of identity

? LO2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

? LO3: Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

? LO4: Children are confident and involved learners

? LO5: Children are effective communicators

Developmental domains

? Cognitive

? Social

? Emotional

? Physical

? Language

Future planning

(Follow up activity and description)

? Extend the interest

? Vary the experience

? Repeat the experience

? Work on a new skill

Comments

Work on a new skill is the defined range that has helped in engae work and develops understanding and knowledge at the adequate range.

Reflection on your role as an educator in the experience

(Which strategies did you use with the child during the experience?)

? Role model

? Play partner

? Mediator

? Collaborator

? Provisioner/facilitator

? Information giver

? Advocate

? Evaluator

? Supervisor

? Supporter/encourager

Comment on your role as an educator (what you did well, what you found challenging, what surprised you, the skills/knowledge you need to develop).

Information giver is the required aspect which has implicated to conduct the work and imp;lied with the effective work at the appropriate and adverse range.