Preschool Educational Resource Materials and Programmes

Resources

Captain Green Storybooks and Teachers’ Resource Pack

The Captain Green Environmental Storybook is a practical resource to support pre-schooler’s learning about the environment through fun-loving storylines created by the students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. It aims to teach the children to take responsibility for their actions and to reflect on their choices toward a clean and green environment.

The Captain Green Teacher’s Resource Pack will aid the pre-school teachers with knowledge on environmental health and hygiene issues that can be applied in their pre-school teaching curriculum. The Captain Green Environmental Storybook and Captain Green Teacher Resource Pack was distributed to all pre-schools in April 2016.

The new materials are aligned with the refreshed kindergarten framework and incorporate the refreshed Captain Green mascot.

The storybooks can be downloaded at www.cgs.gov.sg/resources.

Environmental Resource Book for Pre-schoolers and Parents

To deepen the engagement of parents as a key partner and to assist them, a resource book ‘A Quest to Save the Edmoral Kingdom’ was jointly developed by final-year students from the Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Humanities & Social Sciences and the National Environment Agency, with the aim to help nurture good environmental practices and values in children.

Some of the components in the book include storytelling that reinforce good environmental habits in children, simple learning activities and games that parents can carry out with their children, and a guide for parents to help their children to reflect on their choices toward their own environment.

The book was distributed to all K1 children in Singapore in September 2014. Currently, an e-version of ‘A Quest to Save the Edmoral Kingdom’ can be downloaded at www.cgs.gov.sg/resources.

Miscellaneous

Dengue Prevention

For dengue prevention, you can increase the awareness to the pre-schoolers by screening videos from dengue.gov.sg during lessons and remind them to bring the dengue message home to their family members to practise the “5-step Mozzie Wipe-out” to remove mosquito breeding habitats at home:

1. Change water in vases/bowls on alternate days

2. Turn over all water storage containers

3. Cover bamboo pole holders when not in use

4. Clear blockages and put BTI insecticide in roof gutters monthly

5. Remove water from flower pot plates on alternate days

Sustainable Singapore Gallery

The newly opened Sustainable Singapore Gallery at the Marina Barrage is a one-stop showcase of Singapore’s sustainability story and visitors can look forward to a multi-sensory experience as they journey through different zones covering various environmental and sustainability topics such as climate, water, energy and waste. This gallery replaces the ENVision Gallery at Environment Building which is closed permanently.

Admission is free and complementary guided tours are available for school groups on request, subject to availability.

Details about the bookings of tours are as follows: