Getting Started with Learning through Play
Play-Based Strategies in the Classroom (30s)
This co-created exploration, set in Kenya, investigates the theme of getting started with learning through play.
Created by an international community team it gives you hands-on examples on how you can get started with play-based strategies in the classroom. The objective of the work is to support learning through play teaching approaches and implementation, building on current practices.
GET INSPIRED
The team created resources to share what they learned during this exploration. Please explore the Flashcard PDF and the short video examples below.
Discover hands-on examples on how to get started with play-based strategies in the classroom in these videos:
Play-Based Strategies in the Classroom - An Introduction
Learning through Play: Emotions
Learning through Play: Cooking class
Learning through Play: Documenting Learning through Play
Learning through Play: Beautiful Stuff
Learning through Play: Tinkering, Design, and Coding with Bee-Bot
Learning through Play: Sky Flyers
Learning through Play: Code Literacy with Bee-Bot
Learning through Play: Storytelling and Story Acting
Learning through Play: A Mini-Theater
To summarize stories and learnings from the exploration, the team also hosted a webinar and Q&A session presenting experiences and learnings. All in all, their aspiration is that all these materials will offer you inspiration and motivation to kickstart your own ideas on how to get started with 'learning through play'.
Getting Started with Learning through play in Embu, Kenya (PlayFutures Webinar Feb 2019)
Exploration 1 team
Educational Curriculum Manager & Play Facilitator, Aarhus, Denmark.
Lecturer of Early Childhood Education, Boston University, Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, Boston, USA.
Sociologist director and founder of Blossoming Cherries Learning Center, Embu, Kenya.
Formerly PlayFutures Manager (2016-2018), LEGO Foundation, Billund, Denmark.