Two things that both the child and the scientist do.
What is investigate and discover knowledge?
100
The study of all elements of an environment, both living and nonliving, and the interrelation of these elements.
What is Ecology?
100
The ___________is an important tool in teaching mathematics in grades 3 through 5.
What is a calculator?
100
The study of human beings in their environment and of the concepts, skills, and attitudes that are needed in order to become social beings.
What is social studies?
200
Refers to the place of an object in a series of numbers.
What are ordinal numbers?
200
Experiences are planned by the teacher to develop particular skill.
What is formal science?
200
Living things: man-made and natural things that children meet i n their surroundings.
What is environment?
200
Counting (saying a number for each item/object) and understanding that the number you say for the last item represents the total of the objects in the set.
What is rational counting?
200
Preschoolers are generally limited to ___ or ___ "best" friends.
What is one or two?
300
Ordering things
What is seriation?
300
This type of science calls for little or no teacher involvement.
What is informal science?
300
_______ activities help children acquire knowledge about their world around them through investigation of that world.
What are Science activities?
300
Putting together things that are alike or that belong together.
What is classification?
300
Emotionally, children become very sensitive during this period. (AGE)
What is Primary grades ( 6 - 9 years)?
400
Young children need many ___________with shapes and making _______________ between shapes before they focus on naming shapes.
What is experiences and comparisons?
400
This type of science cannot be planned.
What is Incidental Science?
400
_________ have an adult with the children in any water play situation.
What is always?
400
_________refers to a situation in which the members of one set (call it A) can be evenly matched with the members of a second set (call it B).
What is One-to-one correspondence?
400
A child's universe begins with _____ then extends to his or her family, and then to the larger community.
What is himself or herself?
500
_____counting is learning to count by memory.
What is rote?
500
Term often used when discussing science experiences for young children.
What is Inquiry-based learning?
500
A child first learns about caring for the ______by caring for his or her most immediate environment, that is , home, school, playgrounds, and parks.
What is environment?
500
Before children can _______ and _____, they need to understand concepts such as "belongingness," "put together", "alike", and "belong together".
What is classify and sort?
500
One of the first social learnings of a young child is the recognition of his or her own ________.