Lesson 11 : Creative Environments for Children- Activity Centers
Activity/Interest Centers- Concept
An activity center is known as interest center or learning center. A activity /learning centers is a collection of activities developed around a topic, theme, skill or subject. Eg: Music centre
A learning activity centre is a place which provides classroom equipment so that students can work individually or in groups at the same topic during school hour. The learning centre has an integral part of the educational sense.
An early childhood program organized around activity centers encourages creativity by giving children many opportunities to play experiment and discover as they encourage in activities that help them with problem-solving, learning basic skills and understanding new concepts. Activity centers are carefully designed areas that contain a variety of learning activities and materials. In activity centers, young children can manipulate objects, engage in conversation and role- playing, and learn at their own levels and at their own place.
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