Creative Resources for School-Age Programs

This is the one resource that meets all the varied needs of professional educators and caregivers of today's primary and intermediate school age children. Whether the mission is fun, academics or a combination of the two, these activities are designed to successfully achieve classroom goals. The more than 300 activities presented here draw from the areas of the fine arts, language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and physical activities. These fun, motivational activities are developmentally appropriate and easy to implement, making this book a value resource for teachers and other professionals working with children. Each of the six units contains an introduction to the content area being addressed, identification of content selected based on national standards, and a brief discussion of the activities that are included.

With more than 300 creative activities for primary and intermediate school age children, this book is the only resource educators and program directors will need in promoting learning and fun with children. Creative, developmentally appropriate activities centered on fine arts, language arts, math, physical activities, science and social studies bring these subjects to life. The book's content reflects standards from national organizations and includes projects that work well for individual children, small groups and large groups. Plus, implementing these projects and activities is easy in any setting, even with limited time, money, space or materials.

Nancy Platz has years of experience teaches early childhood social studies, integrating curriculum and supervised student teachers. She has experience in preschool and primary education as a teacher, had directed several early childhood programs, was a parent educator and currently is involved in teacher education at the early childhood level.

Donald and Nancy Platz both work with early childhood teacher training program at the University of Wisconsin—Stout. Donald Platz teaches early childhood math and science methods courses, and supervises student teachers. He has years of experience as an early childhood teacher, early childhood program director, primary teacher and teacher educator in early childhood education.