This set, video and comprehensive manual, were developed as training tools to provide strategies and resources that support young children's love of language, books, and stories that are critical in learning to read, write, and communicate. Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: Training Manual

This video integrates research and classroom practice and emphasizes the crucial importance of play in early childhood education. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This book teaches parents and child-care providers cooking and gardening activities for children as well as other highly useful home economics concepts.

This video series was developed as a satellite broadcast course for students and professionals in child development and nutrition, child care providers, Head Start staff, dietitians, food-service workers, or anyone who trains staff or parents on issues related to feeding children. (Continuing Education Credit (CEU's) and academic credit are available for this series. Please call 800-405-8942 for further information.)

The filming in this video is full of examples of teaching and play, candidly reflecting what actually happens in this school's classrooms. Techniques are demonstrated on how to handle conflict and set limits while creating a loving environment conducive to learning. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

From babyhood through the preschool years, this video shows that play is the curriculum for the many skills that children must master before they go to kindergarten. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Teach children to take care of their bodies and health by integrating the latest techniques and information about early childhood nutrition. This curriculum contains pragmatic ideas and practical methods of educating children about how to live healthy, happy lives. 220 pages

This video looks at successful preschool inclusion at four diverse centers. The components of success are discussed and illustrated through real life vignettes of teachers and children working together in their inclusive classrooms. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Play is the engine that drives child development -- and “playing around” is probably the most important thing a child can do. Available on VHS and DVD

This video shows children engaged in various activities such as matching pairs, distributing materials, placing one toy on each of several blocks and returning materials to shelves. It also shows children finding a relationship between two things on the basis of some specific characteristic. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video shows children playing with sets, wearing sets, manipulating materials with a variety of characteristics, and using dramatic play kits. It also discusses seriation (ordering) in which children compare more than two things and put them in order in terms of common elements, learning that "three is more than two." Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video illustrates how children learn to recognize and name shapes and how portions of shapes join to make the whole. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video demonstrates how children learn about relationships in space (direction, position, distance) and about the use of space (organization, pattern, construction). Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video looks at the development of rote counting followed by rational counting. Includes children enjoying sample activities such as singing counting songs, playing board games, setting the table and keeping score. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The videotapes in this series focuses on children learning mathematical concepts on their own. It observes children as they explore, identify, compare and contrast, make guesses, and generalize. Children develop higher-level thinking skills through their own efforts rather than through memorizing and rote learning. Available in DVD and VHS formats .

This guide is designed to introduce The Creative Curriculum, motivate staff, establish standards, give feedback, and observe teachers and children in classrooms. It also serves as a guide for workshops in each section of the Curriculum and provides handouts for participants.

This book, the Fifth Edition, outlines methods for keeping records that provide a realistic picture of a child's interactions and experiences in the classroom.

ECERS Scoring Sheets included. Defining and providing high-quality child care is a tremendous challenge. Includes: 96 pages

This book addresses the use of computer technology, with special emphasis on the problem of choosing appropriate software, in the pre-school, kindergarten, and elementary school environment.

This book is a comprehensive curriculum that gives teachers a framework to organize and implement a developmentally appropriate preschool or kindergarten program. Available languages: English and Spanish

This book focuses on skills that enable the early childhood observer to make appropriate inferences and decisions based on objective observational data gathered in natural learning environments.

This set outlines and demonstrates a valid and reliable approach to authentic assessment that is applicable to many different curriculum methods and that meets the demand for accountability. Set includes: book and video (VHS)

This book presents a framework for a work sampling collection system and display methods that together result in powerful a communication tool.

Out of Print This book is comprised of resources to facilitate the Windows on Learning method of authentic assessment.

With animation and classroom vignettes this video illustrates the documentation web and the process of documentation with young children and their teachers. Includes: VHS

This six-part series observes 3-to 5-year-old children in a variety of early childhood settings as they learn about science, animals, plants, the human body, weather light and shadows, motion and machines and water and sound. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Recognizing children’s fascination with animals, this video looks at children as they care for classroom pets. We observe them preparing a worm house;we watch as the children take nature walks to find insects, spiders, worms and butterflies. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video observes children, as they explore plant life. First they compare similarities and differences of seeds. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video presents the study of the human body in a variety of activities: daily routines, outdoor play, sensory experiences, tracking height, and creating body silhouettes. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This program looks at weather through activities such as using thermometers to track temperature change; determining how temperature affects the type of clothing we wear; using a lamp and screen to study shadow indoors, following soap bubbles to observe wind direction. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video motion and machines represent the more mechanical side of science as the children play and learn on inclines, make teeters and use workbenches. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video presents children playing and learning at the water table with containers of various sizes and shapes, as well as with sponges and pieces of wood. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video introduces the series and discusses the importance of culturally relevant programs in First Nations and Inuit (Native American) communities.

This book offers a new way to think about learning and teaching and focuses on strategies for observing different aspects of children’s lives and includes tips for observing and gathering documentation.

Our system of education has relentlessly compared one student to another via letter grades and standardized testing. The shift to a developmentally appropriate curriculum has spurred a new look at the methods used to evaluate children's educational progress. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Teacher interviews, classroom vignettes, and children’s words and drawings tell the story of how child-initiated project investigations begin, develop, and end.

Actual footage from an inclusive classroom connects the viewer to the excitement and wonder of a group of children as they investigate the community fire truck over time. Includes: VHS

In these modules you will observe children, teachers, and parents in a variety of settings where the growth of literacy in young children is supported. Includes: VHS

In this video, teachers discuss the meaning of the term “emergent literacy” and in classrooms children demonstrate the continuum from less to more skillful use of language. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video, parents and children are engaged in activities that encourage the development of literacy and teachers demonstrating techniques to support children in their growing understanding of print. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video looks at the and functional use of literacy including reading and writing materials, computers, and charts and labels that are incorporated into centers and used through out the classroom. Also includes assessment and planning. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video shows the variety of ways that reading opportunities are offered to children. Teachers demonstrate reading picture books, using flannel board stories, puppet plays, picture files, recipe charts, children dictating stories and much more. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Child care professionals demonstrate how to maximize the learning benefits of young children doing art. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video children are seen working on their own drawings or collaborating with others on a mural. Avalable in DVD and VHS formats.