ECED 407 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Paper Towel
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Children are intrigued w/ the world ex: color, motion, reflections. Children seem to do the same actions over and over with different materials. Piaget: schemas: line of thought that"s demonstrated by repeated actions and patterns in a children"s play, repeating of play suggests that play is a reflection of inner and. When children build schemas, they"re building their understanding of abstract ideas, patterns and concepts. When you provide children w/ materials that invite them to explore, you prove them with materials that invite them to explore schemas, they are challenged and fully engaged, and you are able to see their emerging cognitive structures. Transporting: picking things up, moving things, puts down, dumps. Transforming: using materials to explore changes in shape, color, consistency. Trajectory: explores the horizonal, vertical and diagonal movement of things and oneself; makes things fly through the air, moves own body in these ways. Rotation and circulation: experiments with things that turn, wheels, balls: curved lines and circles.
