Boosting Brain Power: 52 Ways to Use What Science Tells Us
Description
If the timing is right, the learning that occurs in the first five years can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive and physical development that lasts a lifetime. Boosting Brain Power provides 52 strategies - one for every week of the year - to help teachers stimulate healthy brain growth in young children. In addition to well-researched strategies, each snippet of information offers teachers evidence-based instructions for how to bring the concepts to life in the classroom.
In this book, teachers will:
- Be armed with the basics of how young brains grow and how children connect with the world
- See how important attention, bonding, and communication are in these critical years
- Explore new ways to boost children's existing growth and prime them for future learning.
- Active Play
- After School & Summer Learning
- Arts & Crafts
- Assessments & Evaluations
- Block Play
- Carpets
- Children's Books
- Classroom Essentials
- Clearance
- Collaborative Classrooms
- Curriculum
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
- Dramatic Play
- Elementary
- Family Engagement
- Fine Motor & Manipulatives
- Furniture
- Infants & Toddler Care
- Language & Literacy Resources
- Math
- Music & Video
- Outdoor Learning
- Playground
- Puppets
- Puzzles & Games
- Resource Books
- Sand & Water
- Science
- Social & Emotional
- Spanish/Bilingual/ELL Materials
- Special Needs & Inclusion
- STEM
- Technology
- Training
- Wellness & Nutrition