Assignment for child development?

Question

For my child development class we have been going to daycares/preschools every tuesday and thursday for a couple of months now. I was asked to teach children around the ages of 18-24months an outdoor lesson about something. I have no idea what I can do though. I've searched online and have found nothing to help me out! If you have any ideas please let me know. Thanks!

Answer 1

Get some inexpensive flowers to plant, go outside and plant them!

Answer 2

Kids at that age are pretty easy... give them something stimulating like color association  and they will love it, plus you can do a pretty good report on it for your class

Answer 3

DO AN ART ACTIVITY OUTSIDE, MEANING LETTING THE CHILDREN DRAW WHAT THEY SEE! TREES, BIRDS ETC

Answer 4

You can also do a lesson on ladybugs or butterflies and do a song or use the imagination.

Answer 5

At my kids' daycare, they had a lot of lessons using water and sand. The kids had a ball, while learning about floating and sinking, volume, shapes, colours, cause and effect (splash and you get wet!), depth (hey mum, I dug a hole that reached the top of my arm!), textures, as well as social skills in sharing etc. My boy learned that if he shoved his face in the water his teachers would freak out! And if he ate sand his teeth made funny noises!

Balls are good for teaching about shapes and textures. Different ways of applying paint are good for teaching colours, and patterns. My boys were allowed spray bottle filled with coloured water to decorate the fence and learned how to get away with "accidentally" making someone's hair blue! Even looking at the different-shaped leaves on the trees teaches them same-different concepts.

Good luck and have fun!

Answer 6

Teach them about the leaves and all the different colors they turn and let them put the leaves under a piece of papar and color over it with a crayon.  It is really neat and I am sure they can do it.  Just make sure they don't eat the crayons.

Answer 7

simply take your child to a swimming pool.

Answer 8

Go on a nature hike (just around the outside of the school building) and talk about what you see outside. Ask things su as what color is the sky?;Do you see a bird? Where is the tree? then play the game gong on a  Bear Hunt.