task: Make a piaget interview task kit.

Interview two children who are 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 years old.

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Do not interview a 3 or a 4 year old.

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+ Directions for making your kit: see - readings.

To better understand the thought processes of pre-operational children, and think about the meaning of such interviews, see the other readings.




rationale:
• This assignment will assess your communication skills with just one child at a time and to learn about their childish views of the world.
• Stress to the parents/teacher that this is NOT A TEST - just an interview to learn about how children think.
• You will be able to better evaluate concepts that the curriculum guide says should be learned by children at a much-too-early-age.
• Finally, you'll understand that it is impossible to teach 30 children at once.

hand in --

• the score sheet - commenting on anything unique about the interview, and then -
• examine a science textbook and xerox a page(s) that contains information that would not be understood by a child you interviewed.
• is there a specific task in the interview kit that relates to the textbook concept you picked ?

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Analyze your results like that above or with an upper level textbook

here is the score sheet / answer blank

concrete operational reasoning