HS 182 - Literacy, Math & Science Experiences 3 Credits
Outline Effective Date 2025 Winter
2024/2025
Lecture Hours: 45
Lab Hours: 0
Practicum Hours: 0
Tutorial Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course is an exploration of planning, implementation, and evaluation in the areas of children’s literature, language arts, math, and science. Students have the opportunity to observe, research, design and implement experiences with children using a play orientated, emergent curriculum approach. Emphasis is placed on supporting the developmental needs of children in early learning, school, and community settings.
Rationale:
This is a required course for the Early Childhood Education Certificate program. Language, literature, math, and science are integral parts of all programs for children. Students need to know the stages of development and strategies for assisting children in developing their skills. Planning in this course is guided by Indigenous and provincial frameworks. Students have the opportunity to observe children, plan, implement, and evaluate experiences that enhance young children’s listening, speaking, reading, writing, math, and science skills.
Prerequisites: HS 180
Corequisites: None
Course Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to
- describe the stages and patterns of child development for language, literacy, math, and science.
- explain how literature, math, and science contribute to the development of the whole child.
- plan experiences using developmentally appropriate practice, emergent curriculum, and Indigenous and provincial frameworks.
- identify and experience a variety of children’s literature, math, and science manipulatives.
- observe, plan, prepare, and implement experiences for children involving literature, math, and science with the development of learning environments.
- reflect on the planning process and implementation of the experiences with the children.
- describe and implement strategies to support children’s learning in the curriculum areas of language, math, and science.
Required Resource Materials:
Dietze, B., & Kashin, D. (2019). Playing and learning in early childhood education (2nd ed.). Pearson.
Conduct of Course:
This course uses lectures, PowerPoint presentations, readings, small group discussions and videos to develop knowledge of the basic concepts. Assignments are planned to help students apply their knowledge of literature, math, and science concepts to their work with children. Students use their observations, planning, implementing, and reflecting skills while working with children to complete the assignments. Students require access to children to complete assignments.
Regular attendance is essential for success in any course. Absence for any reason does not relieve a student of the responsibility of completing course work and assignments to the satisfaction of the instructor. Frequent absences may result in the student being put on probation. Further absences may result in suspension from the program.
In cases of repeated absences due to illness, the student may be requested to submit a medical certificate.
Instructors have the authority to require attendance in classes.
Content of Course:
- Types of Children’s Literature
- Value of Children’s Literature
- Presenting Children’s Literature
- Language Development
- Emergent Literacy
- Reading Strategies
- Writing Strategies
- Mathematics
- Science
- Math and Science Curriculum
- Implementing Math and Science Experiences
Course Assessments:
| Graded Discussion |
15% |
| Story Presentation Assignment |
35% |
| Emergent Reader Assignment |
20% |
| Math and Science Experience Assignment |
30% |
| Total |
100% |
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