{"id":144,"date":"2023-11-13T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintroductiontoece\/chapter\/environmental-design\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T23:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:15:35","slug":"environmental-design","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintroductiontoece\/chapter\/environmental-design\/","title":{"raw":"5.6: Environmental Design","rendered":"5.6: Environmental Design"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\":-environmental-design\">\r\n<p class=\"lt-socialsci-39334\">Rich learning environments with a variety of activities enhance young children\u2019s learning and development. In an environment in which children have the opportunity to make observations, ask questions, plan investigations, gather and interpret information, and commu\u00adnicate findings and ideas (CDE 2012b, 53), they explore concepts in domains such as science, math, and history\u2013social science. 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