Developmentally Appropriate Practices Lesson Plans

Pupils determine which activities and teacher behaviors are developmentally appropriate activities. They examine what are developmentally appropriate activities and how can we incorporate these ideas into a child care setting.

Students are introduced to developmentally appropriate practices. Individually, they discuss what the purposes are of the DAPs and identify them out of a variety of examples. To end the lesson, they take a short quiz to review and discuss how to implement these practices into their classroom.

Students participate in an overview of a course introducing early childhood education outlining the state guidelines for Utah. Topics covered include developmentally appropriate practice, developmental theories, and children's developmental stages. In a class discussion, students determine the differences between child age groups.

Students in teacher education programs, studying developmental preschool, participate in several activities modeled in the format they will be using in teaching pre-school aged children. Through this method, they not only understand what DAP is, but also experience it.

Students create a glyph about themselves. They develop social skills and increase responsibility.

Students develop their motor and coordination skills through physical activities. They explore how to be a healthy child by exercising.

Students count a number of objects and create a tally with groupings of five to illustrate their total. They identify a number of things both at school and at home that can be counted with tallies and create appropriate tallies for each.

Students examine a list of ideas to draw from for lesson planning. They complete a quiz on Math & Science and hand in notes they have taken as a resource for lesson planning. They develop developmental appropriate practice activities for learning experiences/activities/centers.

What does it mean to be living? Help your young scientists identify living and non-living things as a result of their learning through discovery. Observation of and interaction with a set of natural phenomena in their community will make this learning experience fun and relevant.

Students study direction as they listen to the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and The Jolly Postman. For this cardinal direction lesson, learners create a map to show the path Little Red Riding Hood took in the story and label the path that the Jolly Postman took. The class practices the cardinal directions while singing "Oh Where Oh Where is the Postman" song.