Assessment 2 Teaching Resources

1. Experience Name: Treasure Hunting
Set up on: 1/8/14 Age Group: 8 – 24 Months
Set up by: Nuridawati Rush
Rationale
This activity set up to extend children’s early mathematical
understanding of measuring and to develop children’s fine and
gross motor skills. Children also learn about respecting
environment around them, including exploring all naturals’
materials that they can find surrounds them. Binocular and
magnifying glasses introduced for children during play time, so
they can experienced the use of them part of introducing
technology (ICT) for children’s early age. This experience would
involve interactions of investigating, exploring, counting,
measuring, spatial awareness, locating and recognising
environment and natural objects. I predicated that at least 3:6 of
Bishop’s mathematical concepts (Macmillan, 2009) would be explored.
Photo courtesy of
http://creativestarlearning.co.uk/early-years-outdoors/outdoor-maths-
measuring-the-size-of-sticks/
Experience Goal(s)
To develop fine motor skill (eyes and hands coordination)
To develop gross motor skill (whole body movements like walking)
To develop cognitive skill (counting skill and recognising numbers 1 to 10 or more)
To develop language skill
This activity links to
EYLF, Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world - Children
develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities and an understanding of the reciprocal
rights and responsibilities necessary for active community participation. E.g. Broaden their
understanding of the world in which they live. (p.26)

2. EYLF, Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners
Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and
natural and processes materials, and develop disposition for learning such as curiosity,
cooperation, confidence, creativity, imagination and reflexivity, as well as develop a range of
skills and processes such as problem solving, experimentation and investigating. (pg.33)
Materials/ equipment lists
Finding a lot of natural materials like branches, stones, pine cones
Binocular
Magnifying Glasses
Ruler or Measuring Tape
References
http://creativestarlearning.co.uk/early-years-outdoors/outdoor-maths-
measuring-the-size-of-sticks/
Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations for the
Council of Australian Governments. (2009). BELONGING, BEING & BECOMING; The Early
Years Learning Framework for Australia. Barton, ACT: Attorney-General's Department.
Macmillan, A. (2009). Numeracy in Early Childhood; Shared Contexts for Teaching & Learning.
South Melbourne: OXFORD, University Press.

3. 20/8/14
The purpose of this observation is to identify the mathematical behavior observed in a child’s
initiated play and identify the numeracy development that occurs naturally during this activity.
During this activity, I witnessed that children have learnt about investigating, exploring,
counting, measuring, locating and recognising environment and natural objects, and used their
spatial awareness, I predicated that at least 3:6 of Bishop’s mathematical concepts (Macmillan,
2009) would be explored. Children showed their curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity.
This experience has been popular in our nursery room, especially for children who can walk and
run. They enjoyed the most of adventure of finding objects hidden around our outdoor play area.
I and other educators let children to explore objects that they could find randomly outdoor.
Binocular and magnifying glasses introduced to the children to use, as a part of introducing
technology to young children.
The activity set up and achieved the goals, as evident that the children used their own initiative to
find objects and share them with their peers and educators (EYLF, Outcome 1, 2). Children
learnt new words, and interactive with their educator (EYLF, Outcome 3, 5). Children showed
their capability of finding interesting things like stones, logs, animal toys, branches. Children
used their fine/ gross motor during the activity (EYLF, Outcome 4), and aware of things
surround them like we have some plants outdoor, now children understood that they could not
pull or break the plants (EYLF, Outcome 2, 4). Children learnt to measure objects (EYLF,
Outcome 4)
Extension of learning is to continue providing a variety of materials that children can use for
their treasure hunt activity, or a new activity is introducing a sensory basket full of soft/ hard/
rough materials in different sizes.