Author Julie Bullard has thoroughly revised Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age 8. The Second Edition continues to provide students with a highly visual, practical, interesting, and useful resource. Bullard’s book enhances the student reader’s level of understanding of learning environments, and features the most up-to-date information on research, curriculum standards, and play-based learning, with prime examples and 140 color photos that enhance the quality and practicality of the book. Covering birth through age eight, it provides a balance of theory and application to help novices and practicing early childhood professionals understand why and how to set up, arrange, and make changes to early childhood learning environments. Creating a Learning Environment: Birth to Age 8, 2/e, an invaluable resource, assists students in designing environments that help children achieve national and state standards through a play-based curriculum. Through reading this book, students not only learn basic information on environments and curriculum, but also see environmental and curricular possibilities to broaden their horizons as an educator of the youngest of learners.

Understanding the importance of the environment -- Establishing an emotionally supportive and equitable environment -- Establishing a context for learning -- Planning a play-based curriculum -- Arranging an effective environment -- Design considerations -- Developing dramatic play centers -- Developing manipulative and sensory centers -- Developing block and building centers -- Developing literacy centers -- Developing science centers -- Developing math centers -- Developing art centers -- Developing music centers -- Integrating technology -- Special-interest centers -- Creating outdoor environments -- Creating spaces for families and teachers -- Meeting environmental challenges.