Art for Early Childhood
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Course Introduction
Art for Early Childhood explores the fundamental concepts, materials, and techniques appropriate for fostering young children's creativity and self-expression. The course examines developmental stages in artistic growth, the role of art in cognitive and emotional development, and strategies for integrating visual arts into early learning environments. Emphasizing hands-on activities, students learn to design, implement, and assess age-appropriate art experiences while nurturing imagination, problem-solving, and fine motor skills. Attention is also given to the importance of cultural diversity, process over product, and creating supportive, inclusive environments that inspire confidence and enthusiasm for artistic discovery in children ages birth to eight.
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Growing Artists Teaching the Arts to Young Children 6th Edition by
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Joan Bouza Koster
Chapter 1: The Arts and Young Children
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Q1) The arts help children develop emotionally by:
A)developing their skills using the arts elements.
B)giving them opportunities to talk with each other.
C)providing a way to express deep feelings.
D)allowing them to manipulate art tools with their hands.
Answer: C
Q2) Which is the best definition of the arts?
A)the use of art materials
B)arrangement of spatial elements
C)creative expression of culture and history
D)anything made by hand
Answer: C
Q3) Which is an example of a disposition as described by Katz and Chard?
A)thinking logically
B)using artistic skills
C)using the creative process
D)all of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Nurturing Creativity
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Q1) Which of the following will best nurture children's creativity?
A)scolding a child for spilling paint on the floor
B)cutting out a shape for a child having trouble using a scissors
C)putting "good job" stickers on each child's art work
D)providing time for children to explore new materials and techniques
Answer: D
Q2) The exploration stage of skill building is different from the creative process because:
A)the goal is to produce something unique.
B)the purpose is to learn how the technique or material works.
C)it allows the child to solve problems.
D)it is just messing around.
Answer: B
Q3) Which is an example of elaboration in thinking?
A)A child acts out a story playing the parts of all the characters.
B)A child thinks of many ways to use a paintbrush to make different lines.
C)Two children combine their clay animals to create a new animal.
D)Children shake bells to accompany a song.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Artistic Development
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Q1) An adult who scribbles a line on a scrap of paper before starting to draw with a new marker is exhibiting the same mode of artistic production as a child who is:
A)making shapes.
B)drawing a tree.
C)exploring a new medium.
D)humming while drawing.
Answer: C
Q2) can learn to read and write simple musical notations
A)infants to age one
B)toddlers one to three years old
C)three- to four-year-olds
D)five- to six-year-olds
E)seven- to eight-year-olds
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Awakening the Senses
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Q1) How can color-blind children participate in color activities?
A)Use scented materials and arrange colors in the same order every time.
B)Emphasize the names of colors.
C)Encourage children to use the correct colors.
D)Don't provide materials in colors they can't see.
Q2) Children with sensory integration dysfunction respond best to activities that:
A)immerse them in intense physical stimulation.
B)provide slow careful exposure to physical stimulation.
C)prevent them from physically touching anything.
D)make them touch different materials.
Q3) Visual perception is the ability to:
A)see with your eyes.
B)touch things you can see.
C)see, recognize, and mentally manipulate shapes, colors, and images.
D)judge weight and temperature.
Q4) Which sense is key for recognizing colors, shapes, and dimensions?
A)olfactory
B)tactile
C)gustatory
D)visual
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Chapter 5: Coming Together Through the Arts
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Q1) If you were to plan arts activities based on Erikson's analysis of social-emotional development, which of the following would you suggest for preschoolers?
A)Ensure that preschoolers work on artistic activities alone.
B)Make two preschoolers sit together and give each their own materials to use.
C)Expect preschoolers to cooperate with other members of a group with supervision.
D)Expect preschoolers to work cooperatively with others without supervision.
Q2) Marla, a second-grade teacher, has a girl who was injured in a tornado and after a month is still very frightened and withdrawn.How can Marla best help this child?
A)Avoid talking about the tornado and encourage her to play with the others.
B)Have the girl draw a picture of the tornado and counsel her based on her drawing.
C)Recommend that the girl get arts therapy from a trained therapist.
D)Have the girl reenact the tornado using puppets and counsel her about it.
Q3) Describe at least three ways the arts can be an important part of an anti-bias curriculum and give one example of a way to use the arts to develop reciprocal relationships with parents.
Q4) Name at least four ways to capture the process of making group art projects.
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Chapter 6: Creating a Place for the Arts
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Q1) Serena holds up a drawing with no name on it and asks the children, "Whose is this?" What would have been a more respectful thing to do with the artwork?
A)Hang it up and label it as anonymous.
B)Discard it in the class recycling bin in front of the children.
C)Discard it in the recycling bin after the children leave.
D)Put the drawing in the reuse tray so someone else can draw on the back.
Q2) Juana wants to create an arts-infused learning environment that welcomes parents.What should she do?
A)Set up a one-way mirror so the parents can watch without being seen.
B)Set up some chairs along one wall so they can sit and watch.
C)Have a few adult-sized chairs that parents can place as they wish.
D)Let parents stand and watch.
Q3) Do you think food products should be used as materials in arts activities? State your opinion and then give at least three reasons in support of your position.
Q4) Why is it a good idea to separate or differentiate art and food activities? Give an example of one way to do this.
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Chapter 7: Introducing the Worlds Arts
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Q1) One day each week, a preschool teacher has her children lie on the rug and listen to complex pieces of classical music instead of the music they usually hear in school and in their homes.Why would she do this?
A)She wants to introduce them to different kinds of music.
B)She wants them to learn to play more complex music.
C)She wants their parents to think she has high standards.
D)She thinks it provides a good background for resting quietly.
Q2) Which of the following would make an engaging arts artifact to share with young children?
A)a sports T-shirt
B)a maraca made from a gourd
C)a souvenir leather bookmark from Mexico
D)a postcard from India
Q3) When sharing examples of multicultural arts with young children, a teacher should:
A)display multicultural works every day.
B)display multicultural works around the holidays.
C)present works that are familiar to the children.
D)present works that are created by adults.
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Chapter 8: Integrating the Arts Into the Curriculum
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Q1) Jamie wants to integrate the arts fully into her curriculum.How would you suggest she do this?
A)Teach a lesson about the arts every day.
B)Tie an arts activity in with a lesson on science or math.
C)Make a listening center and an art easel available as a center choice.
D)Have arts materials available at all times.
Q2) The project approach differs from an integrated learning unit in that it:
A)is a better way to teach required skills.
B)is based on topics selected from children's interests.
C)unifies the whole curriculum better.
D)requires more assessment and evaluation.
Q3) A child asks his teacher how cars go so fast.In the context of an integrated learning unit, which of the following responses would represent an authentic learning experience?
A)"That's a good question.Why don't you see if there is a book about it?"
B)"Why don't we watch some videos of car races and see how fast they go."
C)"You like fast cars? Why don't you paint some pictures of race cars today?"
D)"I wonder how we could find out.Freddie's dad is an auto mechanic-maybe we can ask him to visit."
Q4) Make a concept web on a topic or integrating question of your choice.
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Chapter 9: Creating Visual Art
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Q1) Isabella wants to develop her first-grade students' ability to respond to artworks and at the same time address the Common Core ELA standard that asks children to identify similarities and differences in texts.Which of the following activities would best achieve her objectives?
A)Have children look at a print and make up a story about it.
B)Set up a printmaking center for the classroom.
C)Hang up prints the children made and have them compare them.
D)Teach the children how to make monoprints and splatter prints, then compare how it felt.
Q2) kindergarten
A)making a pottery clay coiled pot or animal
B)painting with water and large paint brushes outside
C)drawing from a still life
D)draw using zip-closure plastic bags full of hair gel
E)using eye droppers to drip paint
Q3) Name a book about the visual arts that you could read to young children and list three visual arts-related questions you could ask about it.
Q4) Summarize how the visual arts help children develop physical, social, emotional, language, cognitive, and visual perception skills.
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Chapter 10: Making Music
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Q1) Calli has her toddlers shake and tap rhythm instruments when they sing songs.Which particular skill areas does this activity address?
A)emotional and social
B)creative and physical
C)physical and linguistic
D)emotional and cognitive
Q2) To work toward creating a more soothing, stress-free classroom, teachers should have children:
A)participate in rhythm band daily.
B)explore the sound center daily.
C)listen to familiar songs and lullabies.
D)listen to unfamiliar music to expand their preferences.
Q3) Explain how music helps children develop physically, socially, cognitively, linguistically, and emotionally.
Q4) List the three national Common Core music standards and give an example of an activity that would address each one.
Q5) Describe at least four things that are important to do when teaching children a new song.
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Chapter 11: Moving Creatively
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Q1) Six-year-old Fila can skip on her tiptoes.During an activity when the group is pretending to be butterflies, the teacher notices that she is both skipping on her toes and waving her arms like wings.What assessment should the teacher make of her skipping?
A)She is at the level of control in skipping.
B)She is at the level of precontrol in skipping.
C)She is at the level of utilization in skipping.
D)She is at the level of proficiency in skipping.
Q2) Which of the following is an open-ended way to incorporate technology into the creative music program?
A)Take a video of the children dancing, then project it as a background while they invent a new dance in response.
B)Have children hold tablets and explore different ways they can move safely carrying them.
C)Take a video of the children dancing, then use it to have each child assess their peers' dancing abilities.
D)Use a Wii program that teaches the steps to a popular dance.
Q3) Explain how to plan a creative movement activity.
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Chapter 12: Nurturing the Imagination
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Q1) Having children watch a dance performance on video and then asking them to draw a picture showing themselves as one of the dancers is an example of which Common Core process?
A)creating
B)responding
C)connecting
D)performing
Q2) Which of the following are structural components of narrative drama?
A)character, setting, and conflict
B)theme, setting, and role play
C)plot, conflict, and pantomime
D)verbalization, props, and mind pictures
Q3) Francesca wants to assess the language skills of her preschoolers.At which activity would she observe rich verbal interactions?
A)music listening center
B)painting easel
C)space ship play center
D)foam climbing blocks
Q4) How are theater performances and children's dramatic play similar?
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