Learning Center Design Plan for Curriculum Project

Learning Center: Dramatic Play Students Name: Kyia Rueth

1. Current Skills, Abilities and Interests: What current skills, abilities 2. WMELS Addressed: What skills do
and interests do the children in your room have that you will build off of children need to develop next (based
(be very specific)? What have you OBSERVED about children in the room on what you wrote in Box 1)? What
(or what data has been collected) that makes you think this center design are your objectives for child learning
is a good fit? when they play in this center? Identify
2-3 WMELS that will be addressed
INTERESTS: Farm animals or growing plants. (Little girls are always talking about through play in this center.
ponies and wearing them on their shirts) Social and emotional
development (domain) Social
competence (subdomain)
ABILITIES/SKILLS: able to identify every farm animal and their sounds and duties Engages in social interaction and
on the farm. plays with others.
Able to sort veggies and fruit apart.
Approaches to learning, curiosity,
engagement, and persistence,
engages in meaningful learning
through attempting, repeating,
experimenting refining and
elaborating on experiences and
activities.

3. Materials & Physical Set Up: What materials and/or activities will you include in the center to enhance, or improve
upon what is already there? Provide a specific and detailed list to receive full credit. Include a list of materials and a
brief explanation of WHY you chose to add them.
Bandanas, bib overalls, cowboy hats, gardening gloves, boots, plastic veggie &fruit and eggs (farmer
market) basket and buckets, watering can, rake and shovel stuffed farm animals (chicken ,cow ,and horse).
These are all objects that you would find on a farm. The children can practice dressing like how a farmer
would dress and practice jobs that farmers have to do on a farm (feed animals, grow food, etc..)

4. Explain how each of the following is facilitated through your center design:
 Learning Center Design Plan for Curriculum Project
Comment on how the center will
promote at least two of the
following skills: engagement
(including social interaction)
persistence, self-regulation,
problem Solving or planning
This center will promote social skills by
the kids interacting with each by being
different animals and assigning roles
such as the farmer or customers.
This center will also promote problem
solving by figuring how much produce
they want and how much money to
give the farmer.
Direct Guidance- Differentiated Instruction
Have name tickets for each Essential-
center. Only 3-4 friends are able Sorting food by color
to play in this center at a time.
Have only enough materials for
that about of kids to be in that Expected-
area. Sort food by what is fruit and what is
veggies.
Indirect Guidance-
Label the baskets with pictures Enhanced-
( fruit and veggies) have pictures Sort fruit/veggies by what ones grow
on the wall of how to use the farm under the ground and what ones grow
tool to harvest food above ground.