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www.playcore.com/play-value.html- Play Value
www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html - Stuart Brown: Play Is More Than Just Fun
pediactrics.aappublications.org/content/129/1/e204.full - The Importance of Play
www.childs-play.com - Child's Play
local centers:
www.mygym.com - Children's Development Centers (they also come to schools for demonstrations)
We must implement play into our curriculum.
A play centered curriculum is not a laissez-faire curriculum in which anything goes. It is a curriculum that uses the POWER OF PLAY to foster children's development.
Hoorn, Nourot, Scales, & Alward, 2011, p. 3
Let's give our students POWER!
It is conclusive that play is an essential part of any humans life. Play is vital not only to our physical health, but our emotional health, as well as cognitive development...
Why would we want to DEPRIVE that from our children?
Emotionally, the increase of behavioral problems, including violence and emotional out burst. Children will have a lack of ability to interact with peers and authority figures.
Socially, children will not learn how to share, work together in groups, resolve conflicts, and stand up for themselves.
Intellectually, the decrease in creativity, imagination, vital skills, including curiosity, social skills, resiliency, and the ability to assess risk.
To remove or withhold something from enjoyment or possession of
Physically, the increase of obesity.
Dictionary.com. (2013). Deprive. Retrieved from dictionary.refernce.com/browse/deprive?s=t
Children can only develop better from play. Such things as self-regulation, curiosity, increased perseverance, progressive mastery and optimism can occur through play.
Brown, Stuart. L. (2013). Consequences of play deprivation. Retrieved from http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/consequence_of_play_deprivation#play_is_nessesary:deprivation_needs_to_be_addressed]
Physical, intellectual, social, and emotional harm are the causes of lack of play.
Exercise or activity for amusement or recreation
Kaboom. (2013). How is play deficit harming our children? Retrieved from http://kaboom.org/map-play/play_deficit]
dictionary.com. (2013). Play. Retrieved from dictionary.reference.com/browse/play?s=t