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Using STEAM to Extend Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, and Finger Plays
Presented by Judy Ross, MS.Ed
1 HOURÂ | SELF-PACED | NON-INTERACTIVE |Â RECORDED FEBRUARY 2025
Discover how to incorporate STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities into storytelling, songs, and poems. By learning and using STEAM activities, you will transform students’ learning into a fully interactive, creative, and innovative new teaching method. Examples of Fairy Tale STEAM activities that will be presented in this course include creating an alarm system and “bear-icade” to protect the Three Bears’ house, and creating a zipline or boat to save the Gingerbread Man. Nursery Rhyme STEAM activities include creating a magnetic track while singing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” and designing a paper world as part of “If All the World Were Paper.” Finger play STEAM activities include creating twinkling lights for singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, helping Five Little Monkeys stay safe, and many more! Imagine and create a whole new way of teaching STEAM skills!
This course is for Early Childhood Teachers, Therapists, and other Professionals who work with young children.
Get access to this course for 6 months and obtain a CEU certificate for $19.
PURCHASE THIS COURSE ($19)Objectives
The participants will be able to…
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1. Identify early learning standards for Language Arts/Literacy, and be able to explain how those standards relate to, and can be integrated with, STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math).
2. Identify 21st Century Skills (e.g., creativity, communication, innovation, collaboration), and apply those skills to STEAM activities.
3. Define the terms “fairy tale”, “nursery rhyme”, and “finger play”, and describe the similarities and differences of each.
4. Analyze a variety of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and finger plays and identify new ways to teach STEAM skills.
5. Use a variety of text-based STEAM activities that engage students, develop 21st Century Skills, and integrate Language Arts/Literacy standards.
Agenda
1. Overview of Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, and Finger Plays
2. Using STEAM to Enhance Learning
Into, Through, and Beyond the Text: “What If?” and “I Wonder…”
3. Hands-On STEAM Activities
4. Conclusion
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DURATION: 1 HOUR, 8 MINUTES
This Webinar offers ASWB CE Credits:
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Approval Period: 3/29/22 - 3/29/2027
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Approval Period: 8/31/22- 8/31/25
Young Child Learning is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. Young Child Learning maintains responsibility for the program. Social work professionals should contact their regulatory board to confirm course approval for continuing education credits.
How to obtain your certificate:
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You MUST watch all the video lessons. Afterwards, you will automatically be given access to the post-test and the evaluation form.Â
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You MUST pass the post-test (75% passing grade). You are able to take the test multiple times until you pass.Â
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You MUST answer and submit the evaluation form.Â
You will receive your certificate within 1-12 business days after fulfilling the above requirements via email.
Contact [email protected] for any issues/concerns.
Speakers' Biography
Judy is an award-winning early childhood educator with 37 years of experience teaching Preschool-2nd grade. During the school year, she currently works with preschool and kindergarten children. She also teaches a popular summer STEAM class for 5-10 year olds at her local community college in Prescott, AZ. Judy holds an A.A. in Elementary Education, a B.A. in Spanish, a Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential with a Bilingual/Bicultural Emphasis, and an M.S. in Education (Curriculum and Instruction, Early Childhood Emphasis). Judy is the recipient of the Beth A. Lake Award (CAEYC), the American Literacy Corporation Award, and the Docia Zavitovsky Play Matters Award. Judy writes and presents webinars and workshops for local, state, regional, and national early childhood conferences. Judy's workshops emphasize purposeful play through Language Arts/Literacy and STEAM; 21st Century Skills; and building close, supportive relationships within a dynamic teaching/learning environment as the contexts for teaching and learning.
Host's Biography
Dr. Scott Mesh is the Director of Young Child Learning and the CEO and Co-Founder of Los Niños Services which serves 2,000 young children with special needs each year through homecare and center services. He is a Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience working with young children and their families and is an expert on assessing young children for developmental disabilities and autism. He has helped thousands of parents over the years make the transition to gaining help for their children through early childhood special education services. He is a leader in early childhood development and working effectively with parents.
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