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Monkey See, Monkey Do
In the Beginning
Types Of Knowledge Children Need to Have
The Mind of A Scientist and Mathematician
100
the mental process of acquiring knowledge by the use of reasoning, intuition, or perception
What is cognition?
100
By the age of 2 in brain development, it is the elimination of infrequently used or weak neural pathways
What is pruning?
100
The properties of objects and laws of nature Children explore size, colors, shape, weight, texture, capacity, consistency, taste, smell, flexibility They also learn how objects function in the world (objects fall down, not up; some objects change form like solids to a liquid)
What is Physical Knowledge?
100
Science vocabulary words such as Earth, Oxygen, Water, Storm and Air.
What is Earth Science?
200
to follow as a model or example.
What is imitation?
200
By the age of 2, growth of connections between neuron and brain circuitry have multiplied significantly.
What is synaptogenesis?
200
Number concepts Matching, grouping, patterning, ordering, counting, graphing, measuring, establishing one-to-one correspondence, and spatial relations.
What is Logical-Mathematical Knowledge?
200
Inquiry involves teaching children to be effective and systematic observers of object and materials in their world.
What is Observation
300
the way in which human beings actually think, reason, and develop language.
What is cognitive processing?
300
By the age of 6, a fatty substance that surrounds and insulates nerve fibers, enabling smooth transmission of nerve impulses is almost formed.
What is myelin sheath?
300
Expressions of symbolic thought Children recognize and use actions, gestures, pictures, written words, numerals and/or other symbols to represent ideas, thoughts, feelings, and events
What is Representational Knowledge?
300
A U.S. education initiative seeking to bring carried state curricula into alignment nation wide by setting standards about what students should know and be able to do.
What is Common Core State Standards
400
type of brain cell that fires equally when we perform a certain action or when we watch others perform the same action
What is a mirror neuron?
400
stimulates the number of connections made by each axon, by laying out the complex neural pathways by which children develop physical competence, language, mathematical understanding, social interaction, emotional growth, and aesthetic intelligence.
What is a CREB gene?
400
Facts/ Beliefs, traditions and stories Children learn the names for objects, actions and symbols as well as facts, history, customs and social expectations and rules
What is Social-Conventional Knowledge?
400
Value mathematics, confident in their ability to perform mathematics and learn to communicate mathematically
What is Overall goals for children in mathematics
500
equips children for cognitive processing
What is neural development?
500
this is a time of rapid brain growth and development in children’s lives.
What are the early years?
500
Internalizing and communicating one’s thoughts Children communicate their internal thoughts to self and others, they plan tasks, monitor and evaluate their own progress by articulating their thinking as well as writing what they are thinking
What is Meta-cognition?
500
to see a small collection and almost instantly tell how many objects there are without having to count them
What is Subitize