1. Jean Piaget relational concepts

2. 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

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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

7. Team activity
Hula Hoop Line

8. 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.

9. 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

10. Lack of identity
Menard the Cat

11. Lack of Matter & Mass

12. Lack of liquid/volume

13. Lack of Numbers

14. Lack of MOney

15. Experiments in action