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Setting the Table: Cardboard
Environments and Materials

Setting the Table: Cardboard

Getting Started with Lego Pieces

Asking Unanswerable Questions
Playful Inquiry

Asking Unanswerable Questions

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: This tool comes from the Inspiring Inventiveness collection of Principles, Practices, and Tools developed by Opal School teacher researchers in collaboration…Read More.
Family Explore: Texture
Playful Inquiry
Tools and Publications

Family Explore: Texture

FAMILY EXPLORE Family Explore features family resources aligned with Teaching Preschool Partner’s Invitation to Explore Curriculum resource. Family Explore can also serve as a stand…Read More.
First Experience with Tempera Paint
Environments and Materials

First Experience with Tempera Paint

First Experience with Tempera Paint (excerpt from The Field Guide, Chp. 3) written by Melinda Hayward, former Prescott Teaching Preschool teacher and Carolyn Potts, Studio…Read More.
Suggested Classroom Materials List
Environments and Materials
Tools and Publications

Suggested Classroom Materials List

We often go into schools and conduct workshops where people ask us where we get all of the interesting art materials we use. We’ve prepared…Read More.
Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children
Environments and Materials

Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children

  For young children the sensory world is a source of satisfaction, and imagination is the source of exploratory delight. And, it is these inclinations…Read More.