ECDA-NParks Innovation Guidance Project

The ECDA Innovation Grant (IG) is an initiative to improve the quality of preschool programmes and practices by fostering a culture of innovation.

This initiative encourages preschools to explore less conventional ideas and approaches to:

Enhance learning experiences for children
Promote community engagement and home-centre partnerships
Continue with improvement beyond the first year of implementation

Ways to use our preschool resource kits

Get inspiration from past participating preschool centres of the ECDA-NParks Innovation Guidance Project (IGP) on how they have used our resource kits (preschool educational resource package on Singapore, a City in a Garden and its Biodiversity and Sharing Our Home with Animals and the Community in Singapore, our City in Nature) to carry out fun and meaningful lessons for their students!

Through their projects, we hope to:

Encourage the sharing of innovative resources and teaching strategies.
Empower educators to use NParks’ preschool educational resources as part of preschoolers’ active learning and exploration of Singapore’s native biodiversity.
Inculcate responsible behaviour to the animals around us.

The following were created by early childhood educators to benefit the early childhood community.

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School and lesson plan	Focus areas	Project synopsis
Haven Schoolhouse @ Bedok North	Gardening and learning journeys.	This school set up their community garden after getting approval and included useful tips on how to sustain the project.
En-Naeem Mosque Kindergarten	Climate change	This school focused on both plants and their role in the ecosystem and climate change by providing good examples of how to make the topic understandable to children.
Skool4Kidz Preschool Pte Ltd (782D Woodlands Crescent)	Flora and fauna	Students were introduced to some of Singapore’s native biodiversity by engaging in an outdoor learning trip to Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden.

School and lesson plan	Focus areas	Project synopsis
BrightKids @ Pasir Ris	Responsible pet ownership	Through their dramatic play corner, students were able to learn about a vet clinic. Students with pets at home also did a show and tell to share how they love and care for their pets.
Little Footprints @ Potong Pasir	Responsible pet ownership	Students learnt about different companion animals through their visit to Jacob Ballas Animal Classroom A parent also brought his dog to the school and shared about his experience owning the family dog. Their learning was reinforced using the game cards from our resource kit.
Sunflower Preschool @ Mindef Pte Ltd (Gombak)	Appropriate human wildlife encounters and responsible pet ownership	This school took advantage of their location (in MINDEF) and previous incidents with wildlife to focus on responsible behaviours when encountering wildlife.

School and lesson plan

Focus areas

Project synopsis

BrightKids @ Pasir Ris

Responsible pet ownership

Through their dramatic play corner, students were able to learn about a vet clinic.

Students with pets at home also did a show and tell to share how they love and care for their pets.

Little Footprints @ Potong Pasir

Responsible pet ownership

Students learnt about different companion animals through their visit to Jacob Ballas Animal Classroom

A parent also brought his dog to the school and shared about his experience owning the family dog. Their learning was reinforced using the game cards from our resource kit.

Sunflower Preschool @ Mindef Pte Ltd (Gombak)

Appropriate human wildlife encounters and responsible pet ownership

This school took advantage of their location (in MINDEF) and previous incidents with wildlife to focus on responsible behaviours when encountering wildlife.

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ECDA-NParks Innovation Guidance Project

Ways to use our preschool resource kits

City in Nature

Community and companion animals

National Parks Board