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Promising Practices
At Head Start Body Start National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play (HSBS), we are dedicated to bringing the Early Head Start, Head Start and Early Childhood Communities evidenced-based tools and resources to educate and inspire.
From the why to the how to, HSBS resources will help provide the context and next-steps for creating high quality play spaces, activities and experiences for young children and their families.
Creating High Quality Outdoor Playspaces
Our user-friendly Play Space Assessment Survey will help you create safe, age-appropriate outdoor play environments that encourage active play and movement opportunities, and provide educators a place to tap into nature-based learning.
Literature Reviews
Based on recent studies from the field of child development and early childhood education, HSBS literature reviews offer educators, administrators and policy makers current and relevant information to support their birth to five learning communities. We encourage you to not only use these to inform your practices in the classroom, but to assist in advocacy and grant writing efforts as appropriate.
Benefits of Play
- From Playpen to Playground - The Importance of Physical Play for the Motor Development of Young Children Literature Review
- Annotated Bibliography
- Promising Practice Brief: Learning to Move
- Promising Practice Brief: Moving With Feeling
- Promising Practice Brief: Lullabies, Leaping and Learning
Culture of Play
- How We Play - Cultural Determinants of Physical Activity in Young Children Literatrue Review
- Annotated Bibliography
- Promising Practices Brief: Breaking Barriers
- Promising Practices Brief: Knowledge in Motion
