Zinnia is in the garden with friends. She finds a worm but doesn’t want to touch the worm with her hands. She discovers a shovel and works at scooping the worm up against the dirt. Once her goal is reached, she almost seems surprised by her ability to have picked…
In this video clip, we observe five children working individually to make similar figures out of clay. This experience is repeated a thousand times a day in preschools across the country. However, many college methods courses in ECE cite such activities as less than optimal practice. These courses make rather…
