Media & Technology (3 - 5 years)

Learning Guidelines

Massachusetts Guidelines for Preschool Learning Experiences

The Media and Technology workshop has been designed to meet the Massachusetts Early Learning Guidelines for Preschool Learning Experiences. The purpose of these guidelines, developed by the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children for the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) in 2003, is to provide a comprehensive view of the development of preschool aged children while documenting the experiences that support this development and school readiness. The guidelines are for families as well as early education and care professionals.

For more information about the guidelines, including definitions of terms, visit http://www.mass.gov/edu/birth-grade-12/early-education-and-care/curriculum-and-learning/.

This workshop aligns with the following guidelines:

Learning in English Language Arts

Children will be able to:

• Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
• Communicate personal experiences or interests.
• Listen to and use formal and informal language.
• Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
• Generate questions and gather information to answer their questions in various ways.
• Listen to, recognize, and use a broad vocabulary of sensory words.

Learning in Mathematics

Children will be able to:

• Explore and describe a wide variety of concrete objects by their attributes.
• Organize and draw conclusions from facts they have collected.
• Explore and identify space, direction, movement, relative position, and size using body movement and concrete objects.

Learning in Science and Technology/Engineering

Children will be able to:

• Ask and seek out answers to questions about objects and events with the assistance of interested adults.
• Identify and use simple tools appropriately to extend observations.
• Record observations and share ideas through simple forms of representation such as drawings.
• Explore and describe a wide variety of natural and man-made materials through sensory experiences.
• Investigate and describe or demonstrate various ways that objects can move.
• Explore and identify simple machines such as ramps, gears, wheels, pulleys, and levers through play experiences.

Learning in History and Social Science

Children will be able to:

• Identify and describe cause and effect as they relate to personal experiences and age-appropriate stories.
• Engage in activities that build understanding of words for location and direction.

Learning in Health Education

Children will be able to:

• Build body awareness, strength, and coordination through locomotion activities.
• Discuss various aids and accommodations used by people for the activities of daily life.
• Use eye-hand coordination, visual perception and tracking, and visual motor skills in play activities.

Learning in the Arts

Children will be able to:

• Respond to a variety of musical rhythms through body movement.
• Participate in simple sequences of movements and dance to various kinds of music.
• Sing a variety of songs within children’s vocal range, independently and with others.
• Use dramatic play, costumes, and props to pretend to be someone else.