I.      Understand that young children learn best through meaningful, active, hands-on activities.  Explore how play fulfills these criteria.

II.     Acknowledge and address the importance of Piaget and Vygotsky’s definitions of play.

III.    Define emergent play.  Explore techniques on how to develop meaningful, on-the-spot curriculum using children's interests.

IV.    Discover how to provide all academic components through play within each interest area /throughout the classroom.

V.     Explore different types of play that may occur indoors.

VI.    Explore different types of play that may occur outdoors.

VII.   Investigate Reggio Emilia’s “hundred languages of learning.”  Investigate which kinds of materials should be provided in order to allow this type  of discovery within a preschool setting.

VIII.  Understand the purpose and overall goals of the desired results developmental profile instrument.