Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Approaches to Learning domain, the strand Motivation to Learn includes the foundation Curiosity and Initiative. Children from 23 through 36 months explore and seek information in various ways. They make observations, ask questions, and pay close attention to things around them.
Example 1
Text on screen: Explores by making observations and asking questions, and pays close attention to things around them
On screen: 33-month-old JC and a caregiver are outdoors next to a kitchen playset. The caregiver squats at eye-level with JC as they talk to each other.
Caregiver 1: Do you want to come back out later and go grab some snack? Do you want to eat?
JC: Yes.
Caregiver 1: Yes? OK.
(roosters crowing)
On screen: JC begins to look around, trying to find the source of the crowing sounds.
JC: No.
Caregiver 1: No? We go eat, and then we’ll come back outside.
JC: What’s that noise?
(roosters crowing)
Caregiver 1: The roosters.
On screen: JC turns quickly to look in the direction of the sound. He has an intense and curious expression.
JC: The roosters?
Caregiver 1: Yeah. Do you think they’re hungry?
On screen: JC turns back to the caregiver and nods.
Caregiver 1: Yeah? You think they want a snack too?
On screen: JC spins around and walks several steps away from his caregiver.
JC: They’re right here.
On screen: He holds his arm up, using his spoon to point in the direction of the crowing.
Caregiver 1: Over there, I hear them.
On screen: JC walks back toward the caregiver.
Example 2
Text on screen: Explores by making observations and asking questions, and pays close attention to things around them
On screen: 27-month-old Vera and 29-month-old Mia sit together at a table. Mia is holding a few roly-poly bugs, calmly letting them crawl in her hand. She sets two bugs down on the table. Vera points at the bugs and bounces in her seat.
Vera: Mia, Mia! Can I have a roly-poly please?
On screen: Mia picks a bug up between her thumb and forefinger and puts it down closer to Vera. Vera reaches to pick it up.
Vera: Thanks. Thanks.
On screen: 32-month-old Jet joins them at the table, also interested in the bugs.
Jet: Can I have a roly-poly, too?
Mia: Here you go.
On screen: Mia passes him a bug.
On screen: Jet walks away. Mia looks at the bug in her hand. She picks it up between her fingers. Vera’s bug is on its back. She tries several times to pick it up and turn it over.
Jet: OK. I have a look.
On screen: Vera gets her bug on its feet. It begins to crawl away on the table. Vera moves her hand to stay close to the bug.
Vera: It moving! It moving! It moving him!
Mia: It moving.
On screen: The bug craws toward the center of the table. Just before it gets out of Vera’s reach, she picks it up and sets it down closer to herself. Mia looks around for a caregiver.
Mia: (excited squealing) Michy?
Caregiver 2: Michy is changing baby Michael.
Mia: Oh.
Caregiver 2: Yeah.
On screen: Vera’s bug begins to crawl again.
Mia: She’s gotta come out and see all our…
Vera: It moving! It moving!
Example 3
Text on screen: Explores by making observations and asking questions, and pays close attention to things around them
On screen: 31-month-old Lucy stands in front of a caregiver who is sitting on the floor. Lucy excitedly tells the caregiver about the spider she has just seen.
Lucy: That’s– I just saw a spider on the wall!
Caregiver 3: Hello, hello.
Lucy: And it (inaudible)
On screen: Another caregiver enters the room. Lucy turns and runs toward the second caregiver. Lucy talks to the second caregiver, who sits holding an infant. As Lucy talks, she fidgets with an object she is holding.
Lucy: Is it old spider?
Caregiver 3: Huh?
Lucy: Is it– is it a old spider?
Caregiver 3: Is it an old spider?
Lucy: Yeah?
Caregiver 3: You know, I don’t know how to tell the ages of spiders. Do you think it’s an old spider?
On screen: Lucy nods.
Lucy: Yeah, it is.
Caregiver 3: How do you know?
On screen: Lucy turns away and starts walking back to the first caregiver she was talking to. She bends over slightly, moving her arms in an exaggerated way to imitate the spider crawling.
Lucy: But it keeps moving. And crawling.
Caregiver 4: It’s crawling?
Lucy: Yeah.