Environment
Social Emotional
Theory & Philosophy
Physical Development
100

This common childhood type of play, "playing house" has this environmental term.

What is Dramatic Play?

100

This is the ability to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, achieve personal goals, and feel and show empathy for others.

Social Emotional (Learning, Competence, Skills)

100

This theorist stated that children move through four stages of development:  sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.

Who is Jean Piaget?

100

This "time" is important in infancy to provide core and neck muscle development.

What is Tummy Time?
200

NAEYC has this many standards that indicate a quality environment.

What is ten?

200

This is defined as any repeated pattern of behavior that interferes with optimal learning or engagement in or with peers and adults.

What is challenging behaviors?
200

Child-size furniture and equipment were first developed and used by this theorist.

Who was Maria Montessori?

200

This movement refers to larger movements that a child engages in using their limbs and torso.

What is Gross Motor?

300

In this philosophy, the environment is the third teacher.

What is the Reggio Emilia Approach?

300

This is the ability to give word meaning to one's emotions.

What is emotional literacy?

300

This “zone” is referred to as what the child knows and what they don’t know yet.

What is the Zone of Proximal Development?

300

These are the first two colors a newborn sees in.

What is Black and White?

400

This acronym stands for the tool/system that assesses both environmental provisions and teacher-child interactions.

What is ECERS?

400

Before the term Social Emotional Learning was commonly used, this theorist stressed the importance of social and emotional development.

Who was Erik Erikson?

400
In a Reggio Emilia program, this is an important component, the French word for an Artist's Studio.

What is Atelier?

400

This sense or system refers to the body's ability to maintain balance, equilibrium and stay upright.

What is the Vestibular Sense/System?

500

Freedom, structure and order, beauty, nature and reality, social environment and intellectual environment all comprise this.

What is the Montessori Prepared Environment?

500

If tiers one and two of the Pyramid Model are implemented with fidelity, what percentage of challenging behaviors decrease?

What is 95%-97%?

500

This early learning approach is rooted in anthroposophy.

What is Waldorf (Steiner Education)

500

By age five, a child's brain is about this percentage of an adult sized brain.

What is 90%?

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