Over the last few weeks I have been developing and expanding ideas for my Etsy shop! I have decided to make childrens science toys.
I have been reading Inquiry into Math, Science, and Technology for Teaching Young Children by Arleen Pratt Prairie. It talks about three different types of thinking that children engage in with their day to day explorations and activities. These three types of thinking are physical knowledge, logicomathematical knowledge, and social knowledge.
Physical knowledge depends on the "cognitive processes experienced as children act on objects." For example, if a child has a group of shells, he will do various things to the shells to gain knowledge about it. He feels the shape and smoothness, clinks them together, drops them on the table, maybe drops them in water. He is learning the shape, texture, and sounds that the object makes.
Logicomathematical knowledge is created when the child "makes relationships between and among objects." The child compares shells to each other. She classifies them into groups that look alike, examining their groves in comparison to each other, and manipulating and considering relationships in her mind.
Social knowledge is "knowledge shared by people." Those around him call the item concha in Spanish or shell in English. Counting the shells is something socially communicated as well as the names of the numbers themselves. "The decision that we should turn sea creatures back to the sea is also social knowledge. The distinction of social knowledge is that it comes from people, not from the objects themselves."
I have been reading Inquiry into Math, Science, and Technology for Teaching Young Children by Arleen Pratt Prairie. It talks about three different types of thinking that children engage in with their day to day explorations and activities. These three types of thinking are physical knowledge, logicomathematical knowledge, and social knowledge.
Physical knowledge depends on the "cognitive processes experienced as children act on objects." For example, if a child has a group of shells, he will do various things to the shells to gain knowledge about it. He feels the shape and smoothness, clinks them together, drops them on the table, maybe drops them in water. He is learning the shape, texture, and sounds that the object makes.
Logicomathematical knowledge is created when the child "makes relationships between and among objects." The child compares shells to each other. She classifies them into groups that look alike, examining their groves in comparison to each other, and manipulating and considering relationships in her mind.
Social knowledge is "knowledge shared by people." Those around him call the item concha in Spanish or shell in English. Counting the shells is something socially communicated as well as the names of the numbers themselves. "The decision that we should turn sea creatures back to the sea is also social knowledge. The distinction of social knowledge is that it comes from people, not from the objects themselves."
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