1. Child Development: Unit 5 Toddler and Preschool
Preschool Cognitive Development
Pop a batch of popcorn during the bell quiz to get ahead on the popcorn. Pass out napkins during the video.

2. List major cognitive milestones for a preschooler
3 Year Old
Short sentences
896 Words
Great growth in communication
Tells simple stories
Uses words as tool of thought
Answers questions
Imaginative
May recite few nursery rhymes
4 Year Old
Uses complete sentences
1540 words
Asks endless questions
Learning to generalize
Highly imaginative
Dramatic
Can draw recognizable objects

3. Preschoolers all over the  United States   were shown this picture and asked the same question.
Which way is the bus below traveling? To the left or to the right?
Can't make up your mind? Look carefully at the picture again. 

4. “Because you can't see the door to get on the bus.”
90% of the pre-schoolers said:   'The bus is traveling to the left.'  When asked, “Why do you think the bus is traveling to the left?” They answered: 
“Because you can't see the door to get on the bus.”
How does it make you feel? 

5. SEQUENCING Step by step pattern of event put into correct order.
 Example
Directions in cooking, a story,
a snowman being built and then melting into water,
following correct order to performing a task
Your class schedule or job responsibilities
Do sequencing activity for movement and to introduce the concept.

6. SORTING
Common household objects being put into categories according to similarities.
Examples
Blocks, buttons, silverware, colored items, laundry

7. CLASSIFYING
Grouping nature objects into categories according to their similarities.
 Examples:
Rocks, boys/girls, bathrooms, people characteristics, animals, things in nature

8. SERIATION
Organizing objects according to increasing or decreasing qualities.
 Example
Age, height, weight, length, lining up, building a snowmen, your lockers

9. CONSERVATION
Understanding that an objects physical dimensions and amounts remain the same even though its appearance changes
 Example
Pouring liquid from one cup into another shaped cup. Smashing a cookie dough ball or play dough, 2 different shaped cookies or containers of food.

10. TRANSFORMATION Changing an object’s state. Example Popcorn
Water into ice or ice into water,
powder jello mix into jiggly jello and then adding hot water to the jello to turn it back into a liquid,
growing older with age,
a seed into a plant,
dough into bread

11. REVERSAL Building or doing and then undoing it Example Zip and unzip,
build a sand castle and wreck it,
block tower and wreck it,
tie and untie

12. COGNITIVE BREAK 1. Unfinished Picture 2. Matching terms
- How many do you know?
Pop popcorn

13. Journal
Free Write…………….

14. Inquisitive Symbols Everyday Experiences Reading stories
Make-Believe Play
Opinions
YES and NO
Egocentric
Experiment
Parental Attitude
Limited Focus
Test
Talk
Conservation
Language Ability
Chores
Preoperational Stage
Problem Solving
Comic-why
Picture questions
3 little pigs
Tea party
Popcorn maker
Bunny math
Hyperlinks to slides
Comic-dough
Flour/flower
Check list
Comic-bug

15. PREOPERATIONAL THINKING

16. E V R D A Y L N I G Words learned Child asking Concepts learning
Caregiver asking E V R D A Y L N I G

19. Bunny Math

20. 3 little pig story

22. Flour Flower Story

23. Answers Cognitive Terms
1. Language ability
Q. This reveals a child’s intellectual development: how they think, their interests, and their personalities.
2. Preoperational Stage
A. Jean Piaget said that preschoolers are in this cognitive stage
3. Experiment
L. Allow children to explore and _________. This is how they learn about their world.
4. Parental Attitude
O. This largely influences a preschoolers enjoyment in reading, learning, school, art, music…
5. Everyday Experiences
F. Preschoolers learn best by participation and involvement in these.
6. Chores
K. Preschoolers need to be included in ______and daily clean up tasks around the house.

24. Cognitive Terms 7. Symbols
B. In the preoperational stage, a preschooler learns that these represent objects and words.
8. Limited Focus
 E. A preoperational form where kids find it hard to concentrate on more than one feature of an object at a time.
9. Problem Solving
P. Preschoolers begin to develop this skill as their cognitive abilities improve.
10. Reading Stories
N. Spending time doing this with kids is an effective way to introduce them to reading. It makes learning easier and more fun.
11. Talk
G. Look for opportunities to ___________ with a child about what they are seeing, doing, and experiencing. This will increase learning.
12. Egocentric
D. Viewing the world in terms of their own ideas and wants shows this preoperational stage.
13. Opinions
I. Ask a child’s views or ________ on subjects to increase their learning.

25. Cognitive Terms 14. Conservation
R. A cognitive skill where a child understands that even though one property of an object changes, the other property still remains the same.
15. Inquisitive
H. Children are naturally this way. They ask a lot of questions because they are curious and want to understand the world around them.
16. Test
M. Success of a child depends upon qualities like motivation, determination, creativity, and self-confidence, not on _________ scores.
17. YES and NO
J. Ask questions to a preschooler that requires more than these type of answers to increase learning
18. Make-Believe play
C. This preoperational characteristic is imitating real-life situations in fantasy play