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Long Beach City College – Child Development and Educational Studies

CDECE 53 – Writing an Activity Plan

Purpose: To accurately identify and address all components of an educational activity plan for young children’s curriculum.

Skills: In this assignment, you will learn to articulate the purpose, procedures, assessment, and follow-up plan for offering children various curriculum activities.

Knowledge: This assignment will help you to build an understanding of the following:

· How to plan curriculum activities for children that are appropriate for their age/stage of development, engages their interests, and uses best practices.

· How to identify Child Outcomes (learning objectives) and how to write them using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

· How to prepare for an activity by listing materials needed and step-by-step procedures to follow.

· How to assess the activity for effectiveness.

· How to plan future activities to follow up on concepts and skills offered in this activity.

Task: After reading materials about writing an activity plan, use the template provided and write an activity plan correctly based on an activity that will be given to you by the instructor.

Long Beach City College- Child Development and Educational Studies

CDECE 53 - Activity Plan Template

Children’s age group: _________________

Number of children in this group: _________

Group size for this activity: Large group Small group #______ Individuals (circle)

Learning Center (curriculum area):

The Name of the Activity:

A Brief Description of the Activity:

Child Outcomes (objectives) for the Activity:

Concepts, skills, awareness, or attitudes you have designed the activity to teach or develop. Describe in measurable objectives. These should align with your state curriculum standards. Use Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs to describe the observable actions of the child. Objectives must be specific to this activity, be observable, and measurable.

By participating in this activity, the child will:

· (Bloom’s Taxonomy verb) ________________________________________________________________

· (Bloom’s Taxonomy verb) ________________________________________________________________

Space and Materials Needed:

Procedure:

Step-by-step description of the activity.

1. What will you say or do to get the children interested in the activity?

2.

Last steps: clean up, transition to the next activity

Guidance:

Establish necessary limits for behavior and boundaries of activity. Anticipate problems that may develop during this activity and consider ways to handle them.

Assessment and Follow Up Strategies:

Were child outcomes met? Yes No

Why or how?

What worked well?

What didn’t work?

How could this activity be changed to make it more effective or more appropriate?

List possible activities that would extend or give practice to the objectives of this activity.