Math & Science for Young Children

ECE 141 /111Fwinter quarter 2010

Emily McMasonUnits 17 - 20

Need a great book to read to your students? Try

The Mitten

By Jan BrettWhy? Because this book

deals with volume

Which, even though there are three words in the title, it is actually only 2 ideas.

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

Which, even though there are three words in the title, it is actually only 2 ideas.

1. ORDERING

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

Which, even though there are three words in the title, it is actually only 2 ideas.

1. ORDERING is a higher level of comparing [unit 11]. Ordering involves comparing more than two things or more than two groups, and creating a sequence from first to last.

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

Which, even though there are three words in the title, it is actually only 2 ideas.

1. ORDERING, in Piaget’s terms, is called seriation. [fun to say, sounds fancy!]

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

Which, even though there are three words in the title, it is actually only 2 ideas.

2. PATTERNING -

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

Which, even though there are three words in the title, it is actually only 2 ideas.

2. Patterning – once children have mastered ordering/seriation they move on to patterning. Patterning is…

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

Which, even though there are three words in the title, it is actually only 2 ideas.

2. Patterning – once children have mastered ordering/seriation they move on to patterning. Patterning is…making or discovering auditory, visual, or motor regularities.

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

After reading through the unit, make sure you can give a thorough and concise definition for the ‘key terms’ listed at the end of the unit (especially that wacky idea ‘one more than’ ). Respond to the ‘Review’ point C.

Unit 17 Ordering, Seriation & Patterning

What does it mean to measure something?

Unit 18 Measurement:v0lume, weight, length &

temperature

What does it mean to measure something?

Measurement involves assigning a number to things so that they can be compared on the same attributes.

Unit 18 Measurement:volume, weight, length &

temperature

What does it mean to measure something?

Measurement involves assigning a number to things so that they can be compared on the same attributes.

Translation? Examples?

Unit 18 Measurement:volume, weight, length &

temperature

What do we expect young children to learn how to measure?

Volume, weight*, length & temperature[we will look at time separately in unit

19]

*brownie point: come ready to class to explain the different between mass and weight and we should be measuring if we wanted consistent information here on Earth and on the Moon.

Unit 18 Measurement

Unit 18 Measurement

Unit 18 Measurement

After reading through the unit, make sure you can give a thorough and concise definition for the ‘key terms’ listed at the end of the unit. Respond to the ‘Review’ points B & C.

Unit 18 Measurement

Personal observations from preoperational kiddos I know:

Time is not tangebleTime is non-linearTime is multidirectional

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

First kinds of time children learn:

Sequence duration

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

Sequence and duration get overlaid onto 3 types of time:

Personal experienceSocial activityCultural time

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

Language of time:General words- time, age

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

Language of time: general wordsSpecific words- morning, afternoon,

evening, night, day, noon

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

Language of time: general words, specific words,

Relational words- soon, tomorrow, yesterday, early, late, ‘once upon a time’, before, when, first, second, third

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

Language of time: general words, specific words, relational words,

Specific Duration words- clock & watch words [minutes, seconds, hours] calendar words [date, day, month, seasons, year]

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

Language of time: general words, specific words, relational words, specific duration words,

Special Days- birthdays, Passover, Juneteenth, Cinco de Mayo, Easter, Thanksgiving, weekend, holiday

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

After reading through the unit, make sure you can give a thorough and concise definition for the ‘key terms’ listed at the end of the unit. Respond to the ‘Review’ points B & D.

Unit 19 Measurement: Time

After reading through the unit, make sure you can give a thorough and concise definition for the ‘key terms’ listed at the end of the unit. Respond to the ‘Review’ points B and C.

Unit 20 Interpreting Data Using Graphs