The Activity Plan is designed to allow you the opportunity to create an activity based on the eight developmental domains – Art, Social Studies, Math, Language and Literacy, Science/Nature, Sensory, Music and Movement, and Dramatic Play. The Activity Plans should be developmentally age appropriate to the children with which you will be working. Activity Plans are due one week from the date they are assigned, before midnight. Please refer to the Activity Plan Guidelines and Rubric as well as the student samples located under the RESOURCES section of the Syllabus Module.

Assignment Overview:

According to the The California Preschool Curriculum Framework – The creative arts are as natural to young children’s lives as language and play are. The arts build skills such as problem solving and critical thinking; they bring parallel opportunities for the development of language/communication, mathematics, and the development of social and interpersonal skills. The following activities are often referred to as children’s play: scribbling with a crayon, pretending to be a pirate or a bird, humming bits of a tune, banging on a drum, or swaying to music. But these behaviors in fact show elements of artistic expression and creation that support continuous development of artistic skills. They also show the hallmarks of children’s abilities to express themselves through symbols and aesthetic images.

This Activity Plan is on Art. The purpose of this assignment is for you to develop skill in planning appropriate activities for young children in early childhood education programs. Detailed, creative and thoughtful planning and implementation of activities enables teachers to provide the optimal environment for children’s growth and development.