Children Exploring Their Communities

In the book, Really Seeing Children, author Deb Curtis quotes educators Lynda Dale, Kelly Caines and Sylvia Curtis-Norcross, who explain a project they worked on that helped children explore their community more fully:

“We have been working with children on a long-term project to study a local bridge in our community. As part of our investigations, the children engaged with the different sounds that they could make on the bridge. The children noticed that the deck of the bridge made a unique sound, since it was made of wood. They discovered that the metal supports on the top half of the bridge could be shaken to make a sound as well. The children loved to run on one side of the bridge and drag their sticks along the rungs of the railing.

A young mother, walking her small baby in a stroller, stopped to listen and watch the children. She leaned down to her baby and said, ‘Do you hear the music?’ Many other people using the bridge paused to listen to the music the children were making as well.”

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