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Resources to help with fulfillment of play in your curriculum as well as a suggestment for parents

Websites

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

Teachers

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

Play

Deprivation

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.

Definition of Deprivation (deprive)-

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

Benefits of Play

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.

Consequences of Play

Definition of 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

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