PlayWorlds in action

What does a Conceptual PlayWorld look like? See some examples here.

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In practice

Kindergarten in Victoria

At Preshil, the Margaret Lyttle Memorial School Kindergarten, we worked with the teachers to develop a Conceptual PlayWorld based around Charlotte’s Web. For the children, it opened up all sorts of questions and ideas about the natural world, ecosystems and growing food.

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PlayWorlds support developing culturally responsive play-based learning and teaching

Educators Vittoria Barbara and So’oleoso Ulupano speak about using PlayWorlds in Samoa to draw on local stories and explore traditional engineering techniques with preschool children.

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Kindergarten in Queensland

Tiana Gillman is a kindergarten teacher at Sheldon College in Queensland

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The bang for your buck is huge

Steph Hoy works in Family Day Care in South Australia. She says she found Conceptual PlayWords easy to pull together and yielded huge results for the children in her care.

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Blasting off to the moon

Teachers at Preshil Primary school ran a Conceptual PlayWorld for their Prep and Grade 1 students that ran over a whole term.

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Professional development for STEM teaching in early childhood education

Free professional development is available for educators to learn how to confidentially implement the PlayWorld using an imaginary world, based on a story. Kristy and Tiana from Sheldon College in Queensland share their story and ideas.

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Secret Garden

At Preshil Primary School we worked with prep and Year 1 teachers to conduct a Land of Learning PlayWorld over a term. They read the Secret Garden and used the idea of hidden worlds to blast off to the moon.

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Using a PlayWorld to teach about maps

Teacher Belinda O’Dea speaks about the experience of using Rosie’s Walk with her group of pre-primary students in Mount Barker, Western Australia.

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Conceptual PlayWorld of Anemone is not the enemy

In this video the 5 characteristics of a Conceptual PlayWorld of Anemone is not the enemy is shown.

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Draw a scientist before and after participating in a Conceptual PlayWorld

In this video the teachers talk about how they asked the children to draw a picture of a scientist – many male stereotypes emerged – as is common in the literature. However, after the children participated in a Conceptual PlayWorld and were asked to draw a scientist, they drew their teachers – both females who run the school STEM lab.

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Coding fun

STEM specialist teacher Charina Pumpa adapted the Conceptual PlayWorld model for senior primary school to learn all about coding.

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Professional development

Professional Development supports play-based learning

Charina Pumpa is a huge advocate for play. She did Monash PlayLab’s online professional development to learn all about Conceptual PlayWorlds, and then applied it in her classroom.

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An easy model to use

STEM specialist teacher Charina Pumpa shares her experiences of using PlayWorlds at her school in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. She says it promotes deep thinking and deep learning, across the board.

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Motivating children to learn maths through play

Chris is a Year 6 teacher at Laburnum PS in Victoria, who used PlayWorlds to teach maths in a new way.

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Learn with us

Would you like to build your own understandings and knowledge of Conceptual PlayWorlds? We offer online or in-person professional development sessions for schools and early childhood education and care services.