What is play

Play and Social Skills

Risky play may make teachers nervous but children are capable and competent to make their own decisions about how they use their own bodies in unstructured outdoor play.

Learn what play-based learning is, how it benefits young children and prepares them for school, and how it differs from the academic learning style.

PlayDrMom shares important descriptors of what is learned through play.

Need some new ideas for ESL reading activities to improve your students' comprehension? Check out our list of 22 ESL reading comprehension activities that will get students thinking about what they've read and remembering it! We've included activities such as treasure hunts, role plays and Taboo.

Explore Martin Vorwerk's 35 photos on Flickr!

My niece is showing me how it’s done. In fact, she’s showing us all. It took me many years, countless personal growth books, and lots of money before I could GET what she’s just going ahead and DOING right now. And she isn’t even in […]

Transparency will become the most important tool of marketing. Consumers are going to continue to exert further power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that few brands are taking advantage of now, and most brands fight it. Next year the best brands won’t be those with the best stories, or sort of made up fictional stories, but those that will give an accurate and real time picture of what they are doing in the interest of the consumer, at any given time.

All of these prints are textured versions of the traditional playing cards. What would otherwise simply be a solid color has been given detail characteristic of the Medieval Ages. Within each card are also graphic elements that make it appear 3-Dimensional, as though the head for example is physically on top of the checkered background. This adds a level of depth to an otherwise very familiar image. When someone looks at these for the first time, they are instinctively drawn by the…