Community and Health - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR
Child
Safety in the Local Playground
Middle 
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In groups
of 3 - 4 students, read
the
following
article.
2. Go to the local playground and assess whether the playground is safe or not!
You will probably need to take pictures of the playground and its equipment.
How will you assess whether the playground is safe or not?
3. What needs changing?
4.
As a class, discuss and reflect.
5. What action will your group or class take to make the playground safer?
Childcare
Centres Equipment Costing Activity
Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. What memories do you have of play equipment? What did you enjoy the most?
2. In groups of 4 - 5 students, work out what play equipment is standard in Childcare Centres. Do this by visiting 3 - 4 centres between your members of the group or looking on the Internet at your closest Centre..
3. If you can, ask the Child Care Workers what other equipment they would like to see at their centre. Make a priority list.
4. Look at the prices and work out the cost of buying new play equipment for an Early Childhood or Child Care Centre from the following websites:
Play
Equipment
  |
Peppertown |
For
Park Australia
 |
Imagination
Play |
5. New Centre.
Work out the cost of equipping a new Childcare Centre...
If you had a budget of $25K, what
equipment would you buy? Why? Would you consider applying for more $$$ for
equipment you think is important?
Does it include the play equipment you liked best as a child? Why? Why not?
Old Centre that needs more
equipment.
If you had a budget of $25K, what
equipment would you buy? Why? Would you consider applying for more $$$ for
equipment you think is important?
Does it include the play equipment you liked best as a child? Why? Why not?
6.
Discuss as a group your reasoning about the selection of play equipment.
A Child
Care Worker is a great job but do the wages reflect the important work done?
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Philosophy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, read the following articles from
The Conversation 5 September 2018
The Conversation 23 March 2018
A major new childcare report glosses over the issues educators face at work
and why they leave
27 November 2023
Labor guarantees 3 days of childcare and 160 new centres. What does this mean for families?
11 December 2024
(What does this mean fro Early childhood educators?)
2.
As a group, discuss what you have read here.
Why is working with children undervalued?
Is there such a thing as "Women's work"?
3. As a class, create a Community of Inquiry.
Each group is to come up with one thinking question to be placed on the board for discussion.
4.
Reflection.
What is your assessment of this career?
A
Research Response
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
1. In pairs, read the following article
from
The Conversation 2 July 2018
2. List 10 salient points between you.
3. Create an infograph that will emphasize the human rights and social justice aspects of this article.
Update:
Labor guarantees 3 days of childcare and 160 new centres. What does this mean for families?
11 December 2024
4.
Reflection.
If you were a policy maker, what would your solutions be?
Other
activities used in On the Job that could be used
Podiatrist |
Ruby Red Shoes:
A New Story Primary |
Selecting
Child Care
Secondary 
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
