DTVKX4-07B Designing Physical Environment Assignment 1 – Report, Singapore

Assignment 1

• Individual Written Report: 1000 words
• Student(s) should be able to:
  1. plan for a conducive and developmentally appropriate
  physical environment;
  2. explain the principles and justifications for the design;
  3. suggest and justify for suitable resources for infants and
  toddlers; and
  4. design and make child-safe resources for infants or
  toddlers;
  This assessment meets module objectives 1, 2, and 5.

Description of Assignment

Individual Component: Designing Physical Environment (100 marks)

Imagine this is your first year as an educator. to a class of 10 infants (2 to 18 months old). You are tasked to plan and design a physical environment of 200 square meters, focusing on the play space, to optimise your children’s play and development. From your perspective as the class teacher, ask yourself an important question to begin your work – “How do I want the children to use this space for play?” Draw and relate your responses to what you have learned about the key ideas in the arrangement and selection of materials when making educational decisions for the play/learning spaces.

1. In your planning and design for the group of infants (2 to 18 months), the play space has to be clearly demarcated between locomotive and non-locomotive.

2. Choose ONE of the infant floor plans (play spaces) below to plan and design the physical environment below: ( a picture of 4 different layouts given to choose 1 from it)

3. As you plan and design how your children would be using your selected space, consider the following:

• Space has to be used for meals and milk preparations, play, care, sleep and diapering area. Focus on the play space.
• Name the different areas in your floor plan, e.g. diaper change area, and include a legend to indicate things like different types of partition (high/ low) and furniture (e.g. shelf, cot).
• Do not move the location of the doors and pillars in the given layout
• Use a PowerPoint slide to design the floor plan, which does not need to be drawn to scale but the rough proportion should still be maintained;
• Save your PowerPoint slide as a JPEG file to be inserted into a Word document.

4. Relate the principles and rationale to design (in no more than 500 words).

Explain how your plan and design promote the interactions between the educator and infants. Clearly explain how the design will contribute to the positive behaviour of children during play and learning, while ensuring their safety in the physical environment. Your explanation may be aided with pictures (ensure that you provide supporting citation and references if the photo is taken from online or printed sources)

5. In 400 words, suggest and justify FOUR types of resources to include in the infant room to address the different moods of very young children such as fear, frustration, excitement, stress, and enjoyment. You are required to suggest 2 sets for locomotive and 2 sets for non-locomotive children. Provide a name and picture for each set of resources, using the template below: ( will attach the template below)

6. Create ONE sample from one of the four types of resources in point 5 above. The size of the sample, when being stored, should not be more than an A4 size or a shoebox height. The sample should not have been submitted for any prior assignment. Bring the completed sample to class for sharing with peers and for marking and you may bring it home after that.

Present your written report in the following sequence in the Word document:

•  Floor Plan Design (point 1 to 3 above)
• Relate the principles and rationale to design for the floor plan (point 4 above)
• Justification for the four sets of resources (point 5 above)
• Photos of the sample (point 6 above)

Marking Criteria for the Assignment