Growth Spurts
True or False: The Average ten-year-old is around 70 pounds and 54 inches tall.
True
Elementary aged children are placed in which category of development according to Piaget?
Describe the mainstreaming practice in education.
Mainstreaming is the practice of placing children with special needs in regular education classrooms alongside typically developing peers.
Decentering.
Stores information for about a minute.
Short-term memory.
The progressive increase of the size of a child.
Knowing right from left and being able to brush and comb hair are fine motor skills that should be present at what age?
6-8 years of age.
Describe the segregating practice of special education.
Self-contained classrooms are designed to provide specialized instruction for children with specific learning, emotional, or physical disabilities.
The idea that a thing is always that thing and its content remains the same even if it changes shape.
Identity.
Holds information indefinitely.
Long term information.
The progressive increase in skill.
Development
By what age is the nervous system of the elementary aged child considered mature?
Ten years of age.
The process of monitoring one's own thinking, memory, knowledge, goals, and activities.
Metacognition.
The idea that some things can change and then return to their original form
Reversibility.
The information picked up by the senses.
Sensory Register
A child needs approximately how many hours of exercise/activity daily?
4 1/2 - 6 Hours
By the time a child reaches this age central visual activity is established.
Age 6
As relates to memory, saying the same things over and over again.
Rehearsal
The ability to group things according to similarities.
Classification
Being able to retrieve things memorized.
What three main factors contribute to a wide variation in size and weight of elementary aged children?
Nutrition, genetics, and race.
Gross motor skills such as riding without training wheels, running, jumping, and hopping constantly in motion should be present at what age level?
8-10 Years of age.
The ability to make inferences.
Semantic elaboration.
The ability to group things into more than one category.
The ability to group things in a series.
Serration