Kids Science Games


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Kids science games offer fun games and experiments for all ages. Help kids discover how the world of science works around them from the comfort of your home. These fun discovery kids games include food and water games for kids and use common household items. Parents and kids can do the games and experiments at home while teachers can use these in the classroom helping to foster creativity, curiosity and logic skills. Kids will be amazed at creating a bouncing egg, exploring their fingerprints, seeing a floating ball, making invisible ink, making ocean waves and much, much more! They'll use potatos, eggs, straws, water and thermometers for other fun games and experiments. Kids are curious and love to know how something is made or why something happens. Make science fun, and your child will want to continue this learning. Have fun with your child and explore the great world of science together.




101 More Drama Games for Children


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A fun, dynamic form of play, drama games help children explore their imaginations and discover their own creativity. By improvising a wide variety of scenes and situations, participants learn to express themselves physically and emotionally while gaining increased awareness of the feelings and experiences of others. Drama games also offer a wealth of possibilities for all kinds of group and educational play. The games can be led by parents, teachers, camp leaders, day-care providers and other group leaders. Participants gain as much as they contribute, and the games change every time they are played. A follow-up to the popular 101 Drama Games for Children, this book contains completely different games to take children's imaginations -- and those of their leaders -- in countless new directions. Book jacket.




101 Drama Games for Children


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Drama games are not staged plays but a dynamic form in which children explore their minds and the world around them. They can use their play-acting in sensory games, pantomimes, story games with puppets, in creating masks and costumes, and much more. Drama games allow children to get more in touch with themselves and what they want to be, and are a delightful way to discover the freedom, creativity, and expression of acting- and living. The SmartFunActivity series encourage imagination, social interaction, and self-expression in children. To make the books easy to use, games are marked according to appropriate age levels, length of play time, and group size, using helpful icons. Most games are non-competitive and none require special skills or training. The series is widely used in homes, schools, daycare centers, clubs, and summer camp.




Preschool Kid Game Ideas


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These preschool kid game ideas are great for children aged 2 - 5. These help foster critical thinking skills and creativity in toddlers and pre-schoolers. Both parents and teachers will find these activities great for learning games for kids, as fun toddler games and activities as well as fun preschool craft ideas for kids. Youngsters can play these little kids games indoors or outdoors. These include games to help children learn the basic colors, learn new words, learn shapes, learn to correctly put puzzles together, match similar items and much more. All games and activities combine doing with learning. Kids learn as they do something. They'll learn that colors have various shades, and how to pick out a specific color in their indoor and outdoor environments. Fun activities include art drawing and making a collage. The new words games focus on kids' interaction and problem solving skills as well as putting a focus on responsibility. Find fun money games for kids, nutrition games for kids, problem solving activities and fun spelling games. There are also many activities for kids to learn shapes and sizes which hone in on children's cooperation, concentration and discovery skills. You'll find animal games for kids, art games for kids, card games for kids, counting games, kids memory games, matching games and much more. Preschool educational games include Christmas activities for kids, cooking games for kids, Easter games for kids, Halloween kids games, kids science games and lots more fun activities including making colorful paper chains and play dough. Little kids love, and want, to learn! Once learning is made fun for them and incorporated into everyday living, they'll be eager for more learning each day.




101 More Music Games for Children


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Music games are relaxing and playful. They encourage creativity both in children's imagination and expression. All players need is a willingness to have fun and to experience the joys of interacting with others. The games include rhythm games, dance and movement games, card and board games, and musical projects. All of the games stress humor, challenge, surprise and cooperation rather than competition.




Folder Games for Children's Ministry


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Wander through a 3-D wilderness, explore Bible friendships, and learn from the experiences of Jonah, Moses, Joseph and more. These easy-prep games are easily stored for future use in file folders. Pull one out when the time is right for your children's ministry.




Children's Games in the New Media Age


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The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games. A key element in the research was the digitization and analysis of Iona and Peter Opie's sound recordings of children's playground and street games from the 1970s and 1980s. This framed and enabled the research team's studies both of the Opies' documents of mid-twentieth-century play culture and, through a two-year ethnographic study of play and games in two primary school playgrounds, contemporary children's play cultures. In addition the research included the use of a prototype computer game to capture playground games and the making of a documentary film. Drawing on this extraordinary data set, the volume poses three questions: What do these hitherto unseen sources reveal about the games, songs and rhymes the Opies and others collected in the mid-twentieth century? What has happened to these vernacular forms? How are the forms of vernacular play that are transmitted in playgrounds, homes and streets transfigured in the new media age? In addressing these questions, the contributors reflect on the changing face of childhood in the twenty-first century - in relation to questions of gender and power and with attention to the children's own participation in producing the ethnographic record of their lives.




How Computer Games Help Children Learn


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How can we make sure that our children are learning to be creative thinkers in a world of global competition - and what does that mean for the future of education in the digital age? David Williamson Shaffer offers a fresh and powerful perspective on computer games and learning. How Computer Games Help Children Learn shows how video and computer games can help teach children to build successful futures - but only if we think in new ways about education itself. Shaffer shows how computer and video games can help students learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals, giving them the tools they need to survive in a changing world. Based on more than a decade of research in technology, game science, and education, How Computer Games Help Children Learn revolutionizes the ongoing debate about the pros and cons of digital learning.




Children, Gender, Video Games


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Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, the book develops a relational approach to game play using an account of affect. The book explores central issues of violence and parental regulation and argues that economic relations are not remote from the micro relations of playing.




Children's Games


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A lonely girl learns the mystery of a sixteeth-century village she discovers in the coastal mountains of Oregon, a village filled with children playing games. A theme park? A medieval faire? No, it's much more than that!