Nursery World - Enabling Environments Collections: Sense of place

Use first-hand experiences and location resources for learning
about environments, says Nicole Weinstein.

EYFS: Understanding the World The world - 'Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places ... They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.'

Children learn to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places and the environment. Practitioners can build on this knowledge by taking them out for walks or bus rides in the local community - to the park, shops, places of work or local community buildings. Back at the nursery, they can recreate real-life experiences through role play or use open-ended resources and recycled materials to recreate built environments they have observed.

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