Early Childhood Educator - Fun Activities - Community and Health

Community and Health - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR

Child Safety in the Local Playground
Childcare Centres Equipment Costing Activity
A Child Care Worker is a great job but do the wages reflect the important work done?
A Research Response

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. Reading

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. Discuss Reflect

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

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 Reading

The Conversation 23 March 2018 Reading

The Conversation 19 June 2024 Reading

The Conversation

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. Discussion

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.

Community of Inquiry

Each group is to come up with two thinking question - Inquiry Questions - to be placed on the board for discussion. Use this Question Quadrant as an aid.

Question Quadrant