1.

List 10 pieces of equipment and 10 DAP activities that promote the physical

development of children.

Equipment

1. Rock Wall

2. Swing Set

3. Titter Tot

4. Imagination playground big blue blocks set.

5. Slides

6. Dome climbers

7. 2 or 3 tier pull up chin up bars.

8. Parallel Bars

9. Monkey Bars

10. Animal themed Spring riders

DAP Activities

1. Obstacle course. This activity can promote physical development by incorporating

running, jumping, balancing.

2. Movement games. This activity can promote gross motor skills: games like Simon

says, twister and Duck Duck Goose.

3. Yoga. This activity can promote physical development by strengthening muscles and

developing coordination and balance.

4. Hopscotch. This activity can promote creativity by making your own hopscotch paths

and gross motor skills for coordination on following the path.

5. Building blue block playground. This can promote physical development by

encouraging them to build their own building and fine motor skills in using hand and

eye coordination skills.

6. Jumping Ropes. This can promote gross motor skills on practicing their timing and

controlling the rope. This also promotes physical development and leg strength.

7. Playing Catch. This can promote physical development by practicing gross motor

skills in the way of catching a ball, throwing a ball.

8. Basketball. This activity can promote physical development by incorporation:

running, catching, dripping, throwing, a group of children moving a ball up and down

the court to score points.

9. Track. This activity can promote physical development by incorporating running,

walking, stretching and relay races.

10. Swings. This activity can promote physical development in children. They must use

gross motor skills to coordinate how to swing themselves or get a friend to push them.

2. Design a playground.

3.Describe three learning styles in children an appropriate environment for each.

Visual Learning Style: In regard to this learning style, children need to see information

in order to comprehend and learn information. The appropriate learning environments for

visual learners should have a multitude of pictures and illustrations that showcase

classroom rules and other aspects of the classroom instruction. That is verbally spoken to

the class should be accompanied by a corresponding handouts, diagram, and other visuals

to assist the visual learners (Roell, 2019).

 Kinesthetic learning style: Kinesthetic learners in the classroom benefit from touching

and manipulating items to learn. An appropriate learning environment for kinesthetic

learners would be an environment where there's a lot of movement and hands-on

activities. Educators can implement music and dance into the classroom. By doing these

educators can offer kinesthetic learners the opportunity to follow basic movement

patterns. Manipulatives are also a great tool for kinesthetic learners because it gives the

students the opportunity to move their fingers and make their own models when

completing activities (Kinesthetic Learning Style -, n.d.).

Auditory learners: These are learners who would rather listen than read when learning

something new in the classroom. The appropriate environment for a auditory learner is an

environment that offers. Emphasized oral instruction. Open readings would also benefit

auditory learners., reading with an auditory learner educator can. Provide an appropriate

environment along with a challenge by reading softly so that students. Must concentrate

to understand (Auditory Learning Style, n.d.).

4.Describe three activities that enhance curiosity, exploration. And problem-solving

a. Puzzle play. Allows for curiosity, exploration, and problem solving. Puzzle play

encourages exploration because kids are actively exploring each piece to see if they are

going to match. This coexists with the element of problem solving by helping children.

“Develop problem solving skills to figure out how to put the pieces together. Puzzle play

encourages curiosity by having the children actively guess what the image is. Their

opinions can change throughout the duration of the puzzle until the puzzle is complete.
b. Dialogic reading. Is a read aloud strategy that helps make the child become the reader of

the story. By putting the child in the front seat and guiding them to tell the story,

educators are given the ability to enhance curiosity, exploration, and problem solving.

Educators are given this ability through. So adult child interactions. Educators can follow

the PEER sequence (Whitehurst, 2013) to ask open-ended questions and expand the

child's understanding as well.

c. Construction play enhances a child's curiosity by having the child play in groups where

they can discuss their creations. Construction play can enhance exploration because

children can construct. Obstacle courses that they're friends can go through to explore.

Construction play enhances problem solving because students are not always going to be

able to build in the ways that they want; So children will need to problem solve to find

new ways of building.

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