Jean Piaget relational concepts

classification Children are able to group objects or match concepts according to the ways they are similar Examples: color, shapes, size, use, weight, etc. Children aged 3-4 can only handle one concept at a time

Your Turn Classify the contents of the bag your group received Classification activity as per “teacher categories” Stump the teacher!

Seriation Children put objects into some kind of logical order or sequence. Example smallest to biggest, numerical, etc. This can begin as early as 18 months.

Your Turn Seriation Activity as per “teacher instructions” String “Fruit Loops” onto yarn based on teacher order

Spatial relationships Understanding how objects fit into space how objects related to one another such as over and under how a person and an object relate Example: Puzzles

Team activity Hula Hoop Line

Temporal relationships A period during which an action takes place. Ex. Time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, seasons, past, present, future. Children use events in their day to mark time. Ex. Bed time, meal time, etc.

Conservation Knowing that quantities remain equal even when container shapes may change. Children lack Reversibility which means to carry a thought forward and then re-think it or do it again. Part of the Pre-Operational Period

Lack of identity Menard the Cat

Lack of Matter & Mass

Lack of liquid/volume

Lack of Numbers

Lack of MOney

Experiments in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnArvcWaH6I