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EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Working together

For the final UN Sustainable Development Goal, Dr Diane Boyd considers how early years settings can encourage children to think and work in partnership

The final Sustainable Development Goal calls for a global partnership and highlights the need for collaboration across sectors.

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EYFS (DfE 2021) – an overarching theme is positive relationships and partnership working.

Thinking critically and problem-solving also links with the Characteristics of Effective Learning (DfE 2021) and Development Matters(2021):

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Development Matters (2021) Help children to extend their ideas through sustained discussion that goes beyond what they, and you, have noticed. Consider ‘how’ and ‘why’ things happen, and ‘what might happen next’.

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Development Matters (2021) ‘Open-ended questions like “I wonder what would happen if….?” encourage more thinking and longer responses. Sustained shared thinking is especially powerful. This is when two or more individuals (adult and child, or children) “work together” in an intellectual way to solve a problem, clarify a concept, evaluate activities, extend a narrative, etc.’

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