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Hands-On Learning!: More Than 1000 Activities for Young Children Using Everyday Objects [Paperback]

Gwendolyn (Gwen) S. (Snyder) Kaltman (Author)
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Publication Date: 10 Jun 2009 | ISBN-10: 1412970954 | ISBN-13: 978-1412970952
Teachers of young children are always looking for fresh, hands-on activities to engage their students and build their knowledge of the world through firsthand experiences with objects. This innovative resource guides teachers in developing tactile lessons utilizing inexpensive, readily available objects to engage young children's senses and interest.

Ideal as a supplement to a primary curriculum as well as for learning centers, this volume includes more than 1,000 sample activities using materials such as cotton balls, paper, and wheels. The activities are organized into 18 themes and grouped into the areas of literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, physical development, and creativity. Reflected throughout the book is a unique approach that:

Presents a new and simple way to design themes and activities that guarantees hands-on learning experiences

Complements any curriculum

Offers suggestions on how to modify activities to respond to children's developmental levels

Includes an additional list of over 60 generic tactile activities that can be adapted for a variety of content areas

Hands-On Learning! is the ideal companion for early childhood educators seeking to provide positive experiential learning opportunities for young students.

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“The book is a wonderful brainstorm of activities. The author provides a list and explanation for each activity, making this an extremely useful and user-friendly resource for early childhood professionals." (Michelle Barnea, Early Childhood Consultant 20081010)

“This text will quickly become a favorite for busy teachers wanting to provide engaging learning activities in their classrooms.” (Roxie Ahlbrecht, Second-Grade Teacher 20081010)

“The wealth of suggestions and materials that are readily available to teachers make this a worthwhile resource for educators, who can pick and choose the activities to incorporate into their curriculum.” (Susan Schipper, First-Grade Teacher 20081010)

“There cannot be enough resources for teachers who desire to encourage play-based, hands-on learning-and they all should! Gwen Kaltman’s book is practical and puts common household materials in the service of learning.” (James Clay, Director 20081010)

"An excellent supplement to any curriculum and to an early childhood teacher’s bag of tricks. The activities are bound to engage young children’s curiosity as they explore everyday objects with a new perspective.” (Judy Zimmerman, Executive Director 20081017)

About the Author

Gwen Snyder Kaltman has spent more than 25 years working with young children, their parents, and teachers. She is the author of Help! For Teachers of Young Children: 88 Tips to Develop Children's Social Skills and Create Positive Teacher-Family Relationships and More Help! For Teachers of Young Children: 99 Tips to Promote Intellectual Development and Creativity. She has been a preschool teacher, director, college instructor, and educational trainer in various parts of the country and has also been a validator for the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, the accreditation division of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Kaltman has worked with young children in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, and Virginia. She has trained teachers working in Head Start programs in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and rural Georgia and in child care centers and preschools in the suburbs of New York City and Washington, DC. She has observed preschool classes in such diverse places as China, Easter Island, Greenland, India, Malta, Mongolia, Tibet, Tanzania, Venezuela, and native villages above the Arctic Circle and along the Amazon and Sepik rivers.

She earned her BS and MEd in early childhood education from the University of Maryland.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A New Approach to Creating Engaging Activities! 11 Aug 2010
By Patricia Dischler - Published on Amazon.com
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Hands-On Learning by Gwen Snyder Kaltman is packed with over 1000 activities and practical, useful guidance on how to use just about any object to create activities in a wide variety of developmental areas. Taking a new approach to a theme-based lesson plan, Kaltman suggests that instead of choosing a theme, the teacher choose an object or material, then create activities around it. This approach tends to be more hands-on and engaging for the child, thus more effective than standard themes. Kaltman says, "What should determine the time spent on a theme is the children's interest level."

She shows teachers how they can repeat many activities and how, just by changing the object used, it makes it new to the children. For example, counting (the activity) can be done with a variety of objects: animals, beads, blocks, etc. Patterns can be found by using ribbons, colored spoons or cotton balls. By changing the object used, the activity becomes new and interesting again to the child.

The book is very easy to use, each chapter focuses on a specific object. Then, in each chapter, Kaltman lists activities in each developmental area that can be done using that object. The chapter on Shoes is very creative and has new, and interesting, activities that even the seasoned teacher will find inspiring.

The book also contains a Parent Letter to give to the parents in order to explain this new approach to learning.

The book holds enough new ideas and activities to keep every teacher's lesson plan filled with fun and learning for months to come!

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Author, "Teaching the 3 Cs: Creativity, Curiosity & Courtesy"
2.0 out of 5 stars Not user friendly... 27 Jan 2013
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This book is not user friendly. The book is written more like a novel than an activies book. The objects used in these activities are not as everyday nor as readily available as the website lead me to believe. Further, the activities require a lot of pre-planning.
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