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About the Course
From bugs and plants to pets and friends, low-cost and no-cost loose parts alive enhance the quality of childhood through play. Noticing the living things in and around our environments leads to innovative ways to incorporate them into children’s playful explorations. Expand the loose parts mindset beyond static objects to respectfully and responsibly embrace more interactive play and social-emotional development with living things.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to PreK through elementary teachers, librarians, and school leaders.
Your Instructor
Carla Gull, Ed.D & Laura Wilhelm, Ed.D.
Carla Gull, Ed.D., is the Coordinator of the Master of Arts in Environmental Education Program and Associate Professor at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College in northern Indiana. She has over 20 years of experience in the education field at the preschool, elementary, and college levels. Dr. Gull enjoys helping educators incorporate more nature in the everyday early childhood setting and in nature preschools. She hosts a podcast, Loose Parts Nature Play; facilitates an international group, Loose Parts Play; and presents workshops, presentations, and academic research around loose parts, tree climbing, STEM, outdoor classrooms, and nature education. She is co-author of the book Loose Parts Learning in K-3 Classrooms and the upcoming book Living Loose Parts: Creatures of Curiosity.
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