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	HANDOUT 8-1:  Designing an Outdoor Environment for Preschoolers Instructions:  Your preschool has just been awarded a grant of $10,000 to improve a yard that until now has been a square plot of fenced-in dirt.  There are twenty-five children in the school, but as a rule no more than fifteen children use the yard at the same time.  It is customary to allow at least one hundredsquare feet of outdoor space per child enrolled. Design an outdoor area for preschoolers two to five years of age.  Tricycles and swings are fine, but you want to enhance other opportunities for gross motor development.  Make sure you can justify the design by providing links to course topics. ACTIVITY                                               AREA IN YARD                             SPECIAL EQUIPMENT ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ Submit designs, along with justifications for the designs.  Focus on specific motor skills of preschoolers and appropriate elements in an outdoor playground to support and further develop those skills.