The Building Block Center

The building block center is essential in a pre-kindergarten classroom. 
Students recreate structural environments and explore concepts taught 
through math, geometry, and structural engineering in this center.

Why blocks are important for early learners to play with:

• Block Building and Make-Believe for Every Child by Strasser and Koeppel (pdf.)
• Back-to-Basics: Play in Early Childhood
• Constructive Play: A Value-Added Strategy for Meeting Early Learning Standards (pdf)
• learning library: block play studies