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Curiosity & Initiative

Children demonstrate interest and eagerness in learning about their world.

Curiosity and Initiative

Curiosity and Initiative

Illinois Early Learning Moments
checkerboard

Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Math Is Everywhere

Graphic Tip Sheets, Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets
child using a drum

Drumming in the Kitchen

Parenting Videos
Get Growing With Your Young Children

Get Growing With Your Young Children

Blogs, Learning and Growing Together
Peekaboo!

Peekaboo!

Parenting Videos
Rounding Up the Cows

Rounding Up the Cows

Parenting Videos
Process Play and STEAM: Getting Started

Process Play and STEAM: Getting Started

Podcasts
Explore the Arts with Young Children

Explore the Arts with Young Children

Resource Lists
child playing with blocks

Busy with Blocks

Blogs, Learning and Growing Together
Cooking with Spinach

Cooking with Spinach

Project Approach, Project Examples
The Tractor Project: Noisy Neighbors Lead to Investigation

The Tractor Project: Noisy Neighbors Lead to Investigation

Project Approach, Project Examples
Let’s Get Up

Let’s Get Up

Guidelines Videos
Waylon and Grandpa: A Continuous Contingent Interaction

Waylon and Grandpa: A Continuous Contingent Interaction

Parenting Videos
Let Baby Play

Let Baby Play

Parenting Videos
Dads Read

Dads Read

Parenting Videos
Feeding Baby Brother His Carrots

Feeding Baby Brother His Carrots

Parenting Videos
Exploring Sound on the Dam

Exploring Sound on the Dam

Benchmark Videos
Super Story Time

Super Story Time

Blogs, Learning and Growing Together
child in playhouse

Time to Play, Time to Dream: Unscheduling Your Child

Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets
alphabet

The Gift of Words: Reading and Games

Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets
drawing of child with magnifying glass

Things to Do While You’re Waiting: Curious Young Scientists

Graphic Tip Sheets, Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets
CSI: Child Scientist Investigates!

CSI: Child Scientist Investigates!

Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets Aligned to Benchmarks
Fun at Home with Preschoolers: Getting Ready to Read!

Fun at Home with Preschoolers: Getting Ready to Read!

Tip Sheets
child with magnifying glass

The Curious Child

Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets

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About IEL

The Illinois Early Learning Project Web site is a source of evidence-based, reliable information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children in Illinois.

Funded by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).

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