Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assist children to develop thinking and problem solving skills
- Provide varied and appropriately challenging opportunities and resources related to each child's stage of development and interests
- Provide opportunities for children to experience the consequences of their choices, actions and ideas
- Encourage children to explore, understand and solve problems in their environment
- Use a variety of strategies to maintain children's interest in solving problems
- Provide challenging and engaging experiences for each child to develop their attention span and give them time to stay with the activity until they are ready to move on
- Introduce new ideas/activities that may build on existing knowledge, skills and interests
- Use questioning and non-verbal communication to develop children's abilities to observe what is happening around them
- Identify and monitor children's cognitive development and thinking skills
- Promote opportunities for a wide range of developmentally appropriate experiences in science mathematics technology and the environment
- Present a range of developmentally appropriate experiences in science, maths and technology
- Present a range of experiences to stimulate learning about the environment
- Recognise children's abilities and respond to their interests and learning potential
- Encourage participation in science, maths, technology and environmental learning experiences in a way that is enjoyable
- Present experiences that stimulate children's curiosity and learning
- Provide opportunities for children to further explore their concept development