Explain how understanding child development helps to construct classroom environments that encourage children's natural curiosities and interests and promote problem solving and critical thinking.
• Identify resources, materials, and activities in an early childhood environment that can be used to encourage these natural curiosities and interests and promote problem solving and critical thinking development.
• Watch Using iPads to Illustrate Problem Solving Strategies and discuss what the teacher did to promote problem solving and critical thinking.
Colorado Department of Education. (n.d.) Using iPads to illustrate Problem Solving Strategies. Retrieved fromhttps://www.cde.state.co.us/resultsmatter/RMVideoSeries_iPadsInEarlyChildhood.htm#top
• Describe why problem solving and critical thinking is essential in an early childhood classroom.