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After reading the chapter, test your understanding. Are you able to discuss:- How early childhood education deals with the traditional subject areas of music, art, and social studies.
- How an "art" activity can sometimes look like a "science" project and vice versa.
- How through inventive and creative art experiences children develop physical and cognitive skills.
- How children express feelings through art.
- How to talk to children about their art.
- What adults can do to facilitate the artistic process.
- Why children benefit from an open-ended exploratory approach to music and art.
- Some of the different ways children make music.
- What a "music center" should offer children.
- How music can be a focus of group time.
- How the study of self, others, and the community fits into a social studies curriculum.
- What role adults play in passing on biases and negative images to young children.
- What children learn when they study "community."
- How early childhood professionals create a holistic curriculum.
- How early childhood professionals can show parents a balanced curriculum.
- What "webbing" means.
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