New Foundations
Scavenger Hunt-Answer Key
Print this page and the next for marking your answers.
To help you learn about how the New Foundations: Early Learning and
Development Standards (ELDS) book is organized; let’s go on a scavenger hunt!
Exercise: Print this page and the next for marking your answers..
1. Find a Guiding Principle with which you agree (HINT: Begin your search in the Table
of Contents) and copy it here.
Discussion from page 13-14 of Foundations
2. What ages are included in the North Carolina Foundations for Early Learning and
Development? Birth-60+ months page 5 of Foundations
What are the five age groupings? Page 5 of Foundations
1. Infants-Birth to 12 months
2. Younger Toddlers- 8-21 months
3. Older Toddlers- 18-36 months
4. Younger Preschoolers-36-48 months
5. Older Preschoolers-48-60months
How can you use the domains and age groupings to make decisions about
children?
Page 7 of Foundations
3. The five Domains of Development are: (HINT: Go back to the Table of
Contents.) pages 8-12 or table of contents
1. Approaches to Play and Learning
2. Emotional and Social Development
3. Health and Physical Development
4. Language Development and Communication
5. Cognitive Development
4. Each domain contains strategies. Within each domain there are strategies
provided for two groups of people. Who are they?
Strategies for Infants and Toddlers
and Strategies for Preschoolers
Pages 32-33 of Foundations
5. The three subdomains of Emotional and Social Development are:
1. Developing a Sense of Self
2. Developing a Sense of Self with Others
3. Learning About Feelings
Page 51 of Foundations
Under the Domain of Emotional Social Development and the subdomain of
Developing a Sense of Self with Others and the goal for ESD-4 Children form
relationships and interact positively with other children, then locate the age band for
Demonstrate social skills when interacting with other children (turn-taking,
conflict resolution, sharing). What is the age group in which you would typically
see this skill? Younger Preschoolers 36-48 months
Page 57 Foundations
6. Find the section “How to Use Foundations”
Write down one way you should use the Goals and Developmental
Indicators.
Write down one way you should not use the Goals and Developmental
Indicators.
Page 7 of Foundations
7. Within the domain Language Development and Communication, the 3 subdomains
are:
1. Learning to Communicate
2. Foundations for Reading
3. Foundations for Writing
Page 11 or Page 90 of Foundations
8. Locate a Goal under Foundations for Reading and find a strategy that can assist
in meeting that Goal.
Page 109-Share
9. What are the five subdomains of Cognitive Development?
1. Construction of Knowledge, Thinking and Reasoning
2. Creative Expression
3. Social Connections
4. Mathematical Thinking and Expression
5. Scientific Exploration and Knowledge
Page 118 of Foundations
Find a strategy that you might use to develop Thinking and Reasoning skills.
Page 125 of Foundations
10. This document serves as a shared vision of what we want for our state’s children
and answers the question. (hint page 1) “ What should we be helping our
children learn before Kindergarten. Page 1 of Foundations