Vocabulary

Development is the process of developing or being developed, or to grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
Imagination is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, images, or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. 
Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. 
Learn is to gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in something by study, experience, or being taught.
Play is the engagement in an activity for enjoyment and recreation, rather than a serious or practical purpose.
Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. 
Spontaneous is the sudden inner impulse or inclination to do something without premeditation or external stimulus. 
Recreation is activity done for enjoyment when one is not working. 

Purpose - 
Play Around the World

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In the first sub-unit children identified that play enables them to develop their imaginative intelligence, and it is also essential to development, like education is. In this sub-unit children explore the different ways children play around the world. This includes play through the engagement with recreation activities, cultural life, and the arts. It also includes playing with others as well as in private. 
Child Asks: What are the different ways children play?
Children's Rights Education enables the child to analyze different ways children play around the world.
Child Answers: There are many ways to engage in play.

Classroom Learning Activities

1. Information to come

Relevant Convention Articles

Article 31
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.
2. States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity.

Online Resources and References

Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children (2011): Children's Right to Rest, Play, Recreation, Culture, and the Arts
Play = Learning: Yale University Conference on Play by Singer, Dorothy, Golinkoff, Roberta, and Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy