My Notes – Early Childhood Education Diploma

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Science & Young Children

Posted on | April 4, 2009 | No Comments

Just for your information, these are just very brief notes for my own reference purpose, if you are thinking of getting elaborate details, I don’t think you can find it here.

Science is:

  • A process
  • A body of knowledge and associated to the world in which we live
  • Sets of ideas
  • Sets of attitude

Early years science:

  • Cognitive development – knowledge and understanding
  • Conative development – practical aspects of the development of scientific skills
  • Affective development – emotional, social, cultural, and moral development

How children learn about science

  • Curiosity
  • Anxiety about the unexplained
  • Pleasure in discovering
  • Self-efficacy and learning

Multiple learning pathway

  • Conscious thinking – aware of doing, use of language and information
  • Unconscious thinking/implicit learning – no language involved, imagining, “pattern seeking”, usage of metaphor

Multiple Intelligences Theory

  1. Logical-mathematical
  2. Linguistic
  3. Musical/rhythmic
  4. Spatial/visual
  5. Bodily kinesthetics
  6. Interpersonal
  7. Intrapersonal
  8. Naturalist
Category: Science for Young Children

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