Stimulating resources, combined with challenging, thoughtful questions, are central to effective learning in young children. Only then will they be able to explore skills and concepts and so develop their ideas.
Yet poor resourcing and resource management are often the greatest barriers to high-quality play in the outdoors. Settings often fail to prepare resources in advance or are unable to move them outside quickly. So, a flurry of snow - and children's enthusiasm for it - may have passed by the time the practitioners have assembled the resources for exploring a wintry day.
Resources
In this series, we will show how practitioners can prepare and use sets of resource bags - one for each area of learning, and all stored in one bigger bag. Such sets will enable settings to respond quickly to events and children's interests and offer children opportunities for cross-curricular learning on any given day.
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