The California Department of Education has many publications to provide information to early childhood educators. One of those documents, The Integrated Nature of Learning (Links to an external site.) has a section that addresses how young children learn.
Choose one of the following sections from Part I: Play, Learning, and Curriculum: How They Fit Together to read and respond to. The page numbers refer to the page numbers of the PDF file (the page numbers on the bottom corners of the pages are different).
- How Young Children Learn: What Science Reveals (begins on page 14)
- Play as a Context for Building Knowledge (begins on page 19)
- Integrated Curriculum (begins on page 24 of the document)
- Learning Occurs in Relationships (begins on page 26)
- How Teachers Support Children’s Active Meaning-Making (begins on page 29)
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