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Play is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence. This chapter discusses the definition of the physical environment and play, the defining characteristics of play, and leading theorists.
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3.1.1 interact with a wide variety of objects and materials without concern of product or outcome., 3.1.3 engage in elaborate, inventive and social play., active engagement, arousal modulation, associative play, classroom environment, classroom safety, constructive play, cooperative play, dramatic play, functional play, intrinsic motivation, learning centers, manipulatives, materials, metacommunicative, motor development, nonliteral behavior, parallel play, physical education, play, recapitulation, relaxation theory, sociodramatic play, solitary play, surplus energy theory, infancy and childhood