This curriculum is designed to be used by home visiting programs serving families with young infants to achieve multiple goals: to help families deal with the multitude of changes a new baby brings; to foster a strong bond between both parents and their baby; to inspire families to maximize their baby’s health, social, cognitive, language and motor development; to identify early signs of problems; and to enhance parenting skills and self-esteem.

The materials in this curriculum series were developed specifically for adolescent parents and for parents who have had less than optimal parenting examples themselves. The curriculum teaches emotional communication, parent/infant interaction, and skills for emotional regulation, and it addresses the emotional development of the dyad.

This video shows children engaged in various activities such as matching pairs, distributing materials, placing one toy on each of several blocks and returning materials to shelves. It also shows children finding a relationship between two things on the basis of some specific characteristic. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video shows children playing with sets, wearing sets, manipulating materials with a variety of characteristics, and using dramatic play kits. It also discusses seriation (ordering) in which children compare more than two things and put them in order in terms of common elements, learning that "three is more than two." Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video illustrates how children learn to recognize and name shapes and how portions of shapes join to make the whole. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video demonstrates how children learn about relationships in space (direction, position, distance) and about the use of space (organization, pattern, construction). Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video children first recite the names of the numerals in order (rote counting), then they attach numeral names to the number of things (rational counting). Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The videotapes in this series focuses on children learning mathematical concepts on their own. It observes children as they explore, identify, compare and contrast, make guesses, and generalize. Children develop higher-level thinking skills through their own efforts rather than through memorizing and rote learning. Available in VHS format only.

This guide is designed to introduce The Creative Curriculum, motivate staff, establish standards, give feedback, and observe teachers and children in classrooms. It also serves as a guide for workshops in each section of the Curriculum and provides handouts for participants.

This book is a comprehensive curriculum that gives teachers a framework to organize and implement a developmentally appropriate preschool or kindergarten program. Available languages: English and Spanish

Additional handbooks for the "Parenting Works!" video series.

This books provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-use framework for planning and implementing a developmentally appropriate program. Available languages: English and Spanish

This guide defines the role of a curriculum in achieving a quality infant/toddler program and includes practical hands-on workshops for introducing each major component of The Creative Curriculum for Infants & Toddlers (51818b) to staff.

This six-part series observes 3-to 5-year-old children in a variety of early childhood settings as they learn about science, animals, plants, the human body, weather light and shadows, motion and machines and water and sound. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Recognizing children’s fascination with animals, this video looks at children as they care for classroom pets. We observe them preparing a worm house;we watch as the children take nature walks to find insects, spiders, worms and butterflies. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video observes children, as they explore plant life. First they compare similarities and differences of seeds. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video presents the study of the human body in a variety of activities: daily routines, outdoor play, sensory experiences, tracking height, and creating body silhouettes. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This program looks at weather through activities such as using thermometers to track temperature change; determining how temperature affects the type of clothing we wear; using a lamp and screen to study shadow indoors, following soap bubbles to observe wind direction. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video motion and machines represent the more mechanical side of science as the children play and learn on inclines, make teeters and use workbenches. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video presents children playing and learning at the water table with containers of various sizes and shapes, as well as with sponges and pieces of wood. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project. Includes: Book

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Learningames is the early childhood curriculum developed for the Carolina Abecedarian Project.

These English/Spanish Parent Handouts are part of the Learningames: The Abecedarian Curriculum.

Teacher interviews, classroom vignettes, and children’s words and drawings tell the story of how child-initiated project investigations begin, develop, and end.

Actual footage from an inclusive classroom connects the viewer to the excitement and wonder of a group of children as they investigate the community fire truck over time. Includes: VHS

In these modules you will observe children, teachers, and parents in a variety of settings where the growth of literacy in young children is supported. Includes: VHS

In this video, teachers discuss the meaning of the term “emergent literacy” and in classrooms children demonstrate the continuum from less to more skillful use of language. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video, parents and children are engaged in activities that encourage the development of literacy and teachers demonstrating techniques to support children in their growing understanding of print. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video looks at the and functional use of literacy including reading and writing materials, computers, and charts and labels that are incorporated into centers and used through out the classroom. Also includes assessment and planning. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video shows the variety of ways that reading opportunities are offered to children. Teachers demonstrate reading picture books, using flannel board stories, puppet plays, picture files, recipe charts, children dictating stories and much more. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Child care professionals demonstrate how to maximize the learning benefits of young children doing art. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video children are seen working on their own drawings or collaborating with others on a mural. Avalable in DVD and VHS formats.

Teachers describe how they select and prepare paints, introduce the activity, talk to children about their creations, and include children in clean-up. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video introduces three-dimensional art. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Children are seen creating two- or three-dimensional constructions. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Caregivers in infant-toddler child care settings will welcome this manual describing High/Scope's active learning approach in caring for babies and children under preschool age.

This video, produced by High/Scope U.K., shows caregivers interacting with infants and toddlers to support and extend their active learning explorations and discoveries. Includes: VHS

The Innovations Series is a unique combination of the practical and theoretical. It combines them in a way to support beginning teachers and provides a complete program for every teacher.

The Innovations Series is a complete, interactive curriculum for infants and toddlers.

These two comprehensive (40+ hour) self-directed manuals will help teachers effectively implement Innovations:The Comprehensive Infant Curriculum and Innovations:The Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum.

These two comprehensive (40+ hour) self-directed manuals will help teachers effectively implement Innovations:The Comprehensive Infant Curriculum and Innovations:The Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum

The tool every administrator, director, or program manager needs to provide comprehensive training for infant and toddler teachers who are using the Innovation series (Innovations: The Comprehensive Infant Curriculum and Innovations: The Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum.

This book provides teachers with a more thorough understanding of the knowledge base that informs early childhood practice.