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Take The Early Learning Standards Outdoors
With The Adventurous Child Tracking Panel
Dimensions:
43.75” L × 11” W × 38” H
Pricing:
$1,289.00 (plus shipping)
Tracking Panel
Watch as the ball travels through tubes, pipes and shoots – now you see it, now you don’t. Incorporating a Tracking Panel into your outdoor play area allows children to observe and demonstrate directional words—in, out, on, off, here, there, beside, next to and between. They visually track the object as it goes fast, faster and slower. The panel is designed for use with a tennis ball but children can use Matchbox cars, ping-pong balls and other objects found on the outdoor playground. When children use a variety of objects and compare the speed of travel, they learn about physical properties and cause and effect.
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Discover what the children are learning when they use the Tracking Panel.
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- Use new vocabulary learned from experiences.
- Follow one-step spoken directions without prompts.
- Follow two-step spoken directions with prompts.
- Use trial and error to solve a simple problem.
- Initiate turn taking in play.
- Request permission.
- Use “in” and “out” to indicate where things are in space.
- Use “on” and “off” to indicate where things are in space.
- Use the words “here” or “there” to indicate where things are in space.
- Follow instructions to place an object “here” or “there.”
- Follow instructions to place an object “beside” or “next to” something.
- Follow instructions to place an object “between” two things.
- Use any descriptive word or gesture to express amount or size.
- Communicate the size of things relative to self (e.g., compared to size of finger, arms length).
- Choose between two activities.
- Make simple cause/effect predictions.
- Identify parts on an object.
- Observe and describe properties of objects.
- Use the five senses (touching, smelling, seeing, hearing, tasting) to investigate the environment and to gather information.
- Engage in a scientific experiment with a peer or with small groups of children using sharing/turn taking skills.
- Ask and answer questions about his world.
- Talk about the fact that everything has a shape.
- Observe shapes and look for objects that are the same shape.
- Participate in activities using materials with a variety of properties (e.g., color, shape, size, name, type of material).
- Investigate and talk about the characteristics of matter (e.g., liquids and solids, smooth and rough, bend-not bend).
- Gain a natural sense of the forces of nature by experiencing wind blowing, temperature changes, changing seasons of the year, or things falling.
- Participate in discussions related to their findings.
- Use charts, drawings, and/or graphs to share their findings with others.
- Identify and use a variety of spatial relationships with objects (e.g., the child will move self and/or object over, under, beside, and through as directed by an adult).
- Participate in a variety of gross/fine motor and sensory activities.
- Attempt novel gross/fine motor and sensory activities.
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- Follow simple directions.
- Start sharing some objects with others.
Geography – Environment and Safety- Help clean up after doing an activity.
Individuals, Society, and Culture – Cultural Diversity