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Our Webinars On Demand are designed to meet your learning needs and fit your busy schedule. Enjoy!
Move, Play and Learn at Home Series
Learn how to tap into the power of nature to reach and teach all children while meeting The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework. Join HSBS and Child Development and Management Specialist, Betsy Thigpen for this informative webinar. Appropriate for preschool educators and administrators, the webinar will also offer important insights for care providers, family members and infant and toddler specialists.
The OTHER Learning Environment Recording
The OTHER Learning Environment PowerPoint Handouts
OHS Framework Wheel
One of the biggest barriers to children getting the exercise and play that they need is fear of the dangers in their environment. But what if we are chronically misperceiving the risks they face, and our overprotection is actually stifling their growth and even harming their health? Let's rethink a healthy balance of safety and risk with Family Therapist Miven Trageser. Appropriate for both educators and parents, this webinar will challenge some assumptions about danger, and provide statistics and guidance to encourage allowing age-appropriate freedoms to kids.
The Benefits of Risk Recording
The Benefits of Risk PowerPoint Handouts
A healthy brain is a happy brain! Join HSBS and speakers Deborah McNelis and Lauren Zimet for this eye-opening webinar on the impact of nutrition on brain development in early childhood. Appropriate for both educators and parents, this webinar will provide engaging, research-based information to help adults foster physical, emotional and cognitive health of children.
Practical Nutrition & the Brain Recording
Practical Nutrition & the Brain PowerPoint Handouts
Join HSBS and Playground Consultant/Physical Activity Consultant JC Boushh to explore the "Ins & Outs" of Natural Playgrounds. These dynamic playspaces offer environments rich in learning, play, exploration and movement opportunities. This webinar will review current U.S. Playground Safety Guidelines and how they apply and do not apply to Natural Playgrounds, educate participants on how to design, install, and supervise their Natural Playgrounds, and how to prepare for a Certified Playground Safety Inspection of the playscape environment.
Natural Playgrounds Recording
Natural Playgrounds PowerPoint Handouts
Additional Handouts:
10 Tips for Enhancing Your Outdoor Play Space
Playground Guidelines Fact Sheet
Play Everyday For A Healthy Brain!
The brain NEEDS play! The human brain is an amazing and complex organ that allows each of us to think, feel, and act. The brain systems that regulate those activities are largely shaped by experience. Learn why play is essential for optimal early brain development and why it is vital for all parents and educators to be play partners and play advocates. Join Head Start Body Start and author, speaker, educator and parent, Deborah McNelis for this informative webinar.
Healthy Brain Recording
Healthy Brain PowerPoint Handouts
Healthy Brain Additional Handouts
Sensory Play and Learning
Occupational Therapist and Inclusion Advocate Ingrid M. Kanics, OTR/L taught us about the seven senses as well as how the brain integrates and regulates these in everyday activities. This webinar provides participants with activities that can be done in preschool classrooms to help children explore and integrate sensory information to support learning.
Play and Learning Recording
Play and Learning PowerPoint Handouts
Creating Play Environments for ALL Children
Occupational Therapist and Inclusion Advocate Ingrid M. Kanics, OTR/L discusses the 7 principles of Universal Design and how they can be used in preschool environments to foster inclusion. The webiar provides participants with examples of how to apply these principles in their classroom as well as outdoor play environments to support play and learning for all children, including those with disabilities.
Creating Play Environments Recording
Creating Play Environments PowerPointHandouts
An Introduction to Motor Development: Birth to Five Part I…Setting the Stage
Part I of this two-part series: Head Start Body Start Master Trainer Dr. Kristi Mally provided an overview of the key motor development concepts related to birth to five. These concepts set the stage for understanding the 'how's and why's' of young children's movement. Knowledge of these concepts helps teachers, parents and all caregivers create opportunities for successful movement experiences for all young children, birth to five.
Part I...Setting the Stage PowerPoint Handouts
An Introduction to Motor Development: Birth to Five Part II…Building Opportunities
Part II of this two-part series: HSBS Master Trainer Dr. Kristi Mally reviews the central motor development concepts that were introduced in Part I, while expanding on the idea of creating affordances that foster successful movement opportunities for all children. This webinar shares visual examples of how different variables surrounding a developing child impact the way movement occurs.
Part II...Building Opportunities Recording
Part II...Building Opportunities PowerPoint Handouts
Portion Distortion: Implications for Today's Preschoolers and Their Families
HSBS Physical Activity Consultants Valissa Sutton, RD LDN and Dawn Null, MS RD LDN discussed healthy portion sizes for young children and how to promote healthy eating at your center and in your home. This first webinar in the HSBS Nutrition Series is appropriate for the Head Start community and early childhood educators.
Portion Distortion: Implications for Today's Preschoolers and Their Families PowerPoint
Enhancing Your Outdoor Play Space
Learn about the elements of a high quality outdoor play space, review the HSBS Play Space Assessment, and receive an overview of the 2010 HSBS Play Space Grant application process. This webinar is designed for Head Start Centers who anticipate applying for the 2010 HSBS Play Space Grant Award.
Enhancing Your Outdoor Play Space PowerPoint
Loose Parts -- Play in Pieces!
Join HSBS Physical Activity Consultant, JC Boushh as he discusses the what, why and how of using loose parts in your outdoor play space. Get fresh ideas and inspiration to increase the play potential of your space and ignite the imagination of young children. This 30 minute webinar is appropriate for Head Start and early childhood educators and staff, as well as parents of preschoolers.
