Preschool Powol Packets

I have always had a fascination with how the brain works and how children learn, so I was very excited about the opportunity to review the course Early Childhood Development through a partnership with ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI) from its parent company, StraighterLine !    Today, I'm going to share some awesome brain-building information and activities from the course and then give you an overview of the course also. I want to start out with two huge myths in educational neuroscience . I have heard so many teachers and adults express different variations of these ideas, so I want to start out by getting rid of them right away! MYTH #1: Children's brains stop growing after they are three years old. While there are a lot of variations on this idea, the fact is that children's brains have plasticity,  which means they can grow and change throughout childhood. One of my favorite examples shared in the course was a young man who started having seizures after he was fou