Resource List

Organzations

• Alliance for Childhood
  Organization and action group that acts for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future.
• American Association for the Child's Right to Play
  The IPA links national action groups through its members in over forty countries and provides for an exchange of ideas, issues, problems and innovative solutions.
• Leave No Child Inside: A Chicago Wilderness initiative
  Chicago Wilderness, a regional alliance of organizations working together to restore local nature and improve the quality of life for all who live here -- launched the Leave No Child Inside initiative in 2007 with the goals to get more children outside and increase the amount and quality of time that they spend there.
• National Institute of Play
  Great videos, information for various types of play, and resources for educators, parents, and anyone who works with people young and old.
• Play = Learning
  Resources, publications and ideas from a conference held at Yale in 2005 called PLAY = LEARNING
  
• The Strong
  Educational institution devoted to the study and exploration of play through its partnership of 5 organizations. Great starting place for information on play and learning.

Articles

• Learning by Playing New York Times Magazine Education Issue, September 2010
• “Kindergarten: It's the new first grade”, by Nara Schoenberg Printed in The Chicago Tribune on  September 4, 2010
• “Unpacking Imagination” by David Rockwell, Op-Chart. Printed in the New York Times on Sunday, September 25, 2010
• “The Playground Gets Tougher” by Pamela Paul. Printed in the New York Times on October 8, 2010
• “How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect” by Benedict Carey. Print in the New York Times on October 6, 2009
• “Play: Parents Have Long Played Key Roles at Community School” by Bonnie Henry. Printed in the Arizona Daily Star on Monday, May 3, 2010
• “Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at School” by Tara Parker-Pope. Printed in the New York Times on January 25, 2010
• “The Playtime's the Thing: A debate over the value of make-believe and other games in preschool classes is deepening as more states fund programs” by Emma Brown. Printed in The Washington Post on November 21, 2009

Other Publications

• American Journal of Play
• Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School
• Educational Cyber Playground
• Play at the new Madison Children's Museum
• Playwork and Play (Definitions and  Resources)
• The Association Between School-Based Physical Activity, Including Physical Education, and Academic Performance
  
• Young Children Need to Play Tip Sheet

Books

• 365 TV-Free Activities by Steve and Ruth Bennett
• A Child's Work by Vivian Gussin Paley
• Child Guidance Through Play: Teaching Positive Social Behaviors (Ages 2-7) by Charles H. Wolfgang
  
• Children Under Construction: Critical Essays on Play as Curriculum
• Development of Play by David Cohen
  
• Einstein Never Used Flash Cards By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Ph.D. and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Ph.D., with Diane Eyer Ph.D.
  
• “I Love Dirt!
• Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
  
• Plants for Play by Robin C. Moore
  
• Play by Stuart Brown
• Play and Development edited by Artin Goncu and Suzanne Gaskins
• Play at the Center of Curriculum by Judith M Van Hoorn, Patricia M. Nourot, Barbara R Scales, and Keith R. Alward
  
• PLAY = LEARNING: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth By Dorothy Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsch-Pasek
  
• Taking Back Childhood  by Nancy Carlsson-Paige
  
• The Green Hour  by Todd Christopher
• The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living by Pat Kane
  
• The Power of Play by David Elkind
• Science Experiments You Can Eat by Vicki Cobb
• Waiting Games by Steve and Ruth Bennett
  

More Great Book Reviews from the American Journal of Play

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