How can play become a tool for building motor coordination, sensory processing, and speech development in children? That is ...

Purposeful play enables children to express ideas, build relationships and tackle problems in authentic contexts.

A third grade student sets the last domino down in a row along the edge of a table while playing in Crystal O’Brien’s classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City. Credit: Ariel ...

How Play-Based Learning Drives The Success of Play School Franchises | Play is not “free time” in early childhood. In a well-run preschool, ...

Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they usually ...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — The Tumwater School District has implemented mandatory play-based learning across all kindergarten classrooms, requiring one hour of daily free play while maintaining ...

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Our movement structures as adults stem very much from how we moved as children," says personal trainer Vincent de Jager.

One of my earliest posts here concerned the definition of play, which I developed further in an article on “Definitions of Play” for Scholarpedia (Gray, 2013) and in my book Free to Learn. I first ...

Launch marked by a parent-focused workshop on "Screen and Scream Parenting" led by Dr. Swati Popat Vats, President of Podar Education Network. Hyderabad : India's leading ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Two third-graders sat on the floor of their classroom and lined up a row of dominoes along the edge of a low-lying table. They positioned themselves at each end of the row of ...