Active for Life: Early Years Educators Toolkit
This amazing page provides a number of resources for Early years educators in a variety of games, printables, articles on relevant topics and our Proof of Concept Study: Physical Literacy in the Early Years which provided the opportunity to develop ActivePlay in childcare!
Active for Life: Early Years Educators Toolkit
It’s best to start fostering physical literacy in the early years. Children learn the fundamental motor skills needed for lifelong physical exercise and good health via active, inquisitive play. Early childhood educators can obtain resources for the development of physical literacy by clicking on the links below.
Activities
Get kids moving and developing physical literacy with these resources:
Activities for 0 to 3 year old children
Activities for kids and parents (1-12 years)
Lesson plans and videos (3-12 years)
Lesson plan units (3-12 years)
Interactive lesson plan builder (3-12 years)
Educate parents
Educate parents about physical literacy and promote your physical literacy programs using these resources:
Free posters, graphics, presentation slides, and other media
Share translated resources
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Professional development
Proof of Concept Study: Physical Literacy in the Early Years
Overall Results
Qualitative Findings
Changes in educators’ practice
Observed benefits for children
Benefits reported by educators
ECE articles and webinars on brain development, early physical literacy, and more.
Get more resources
See these links to more online resources for physical literacy, education, and disabilities.
For access to the full list of printables, resources and articles, click here
