Learning Through Exploration
A Play-Based Curriculum Created Specifically for Toddlers and their Caregivers
Our play-based, developmentally conscious curriculum was especially designed to provide toddlers with playful, engaging, and joyful learning experiences. Learning Through Exploration offers a community-developed, anti-bias, and a Reggio-inspired approach to teaching. As well as support for teachers on observation, documentation, implementation, family engagement, and children’s literature recommendations.
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All About Us
Children learn about themselves and others through play and exploration of their own and their friends’ identities and cultures.
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How Things Move
Children explore motion using their bodies, objects, and their environment, with loose parts materials as well as constructive toys.
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Our Bodies
Children learn about bodies through mind- body connection, celebrating all kinds of bodies, and understanding the ways we care for bodies.
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Nature All Around Us
Children learn about the natural world both indoors and outdoors, through play with natural materials, gaining curiosity and respect.
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Playing with Materials
Children engage with a variety of materials, discovering how they sound, feel, fit together, and can be taken apart, through gross and fine motor play.
Thank You to Our Partners:
A Special Thank You to our Funders:
Learning Through Exploration was made possible by support from the LEGO Foundation and other philanthropic partners. It was created by Neighborhood Villages in partnership with educators, curriculum experts, community members, and the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood.
We’re deeply grateful to all of the partners who made Learning Through Exploration possible.
Learning Through Exploration -A Play-Based Toddler Curriculum © 2024 by Neighborhood Villages is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.