Michele_Leyendecker


 * Topic: ** This is an overview of intellectual development and Piaget’s theories.
 * Objective: ** Students will be able to identify Piaget’s stages, the age ranges for each stage, and the major accomplishments in each stage (i.e. conservation, object permanence)
 * Materials: ** Two glasses, marbles, small objects, power point presentation.

1. Before class hide two small objects in the room. 2. Give the students a quarter sheet of paper and tell them that class will start with a quiz. On the front table place the cups and marbles. They are to come up, one row at a time, and look at the front table and then write down the answers to the quiz. Question number one has to do with Conservation. Have two cups, labeled A and B. One should be tall and skinny the second should be short and wide. Fill both cups with the same amount of water. Ask the students to write down which cup has more water. Question number two--Arrange the marbles into two rows. In one row the marbles are close together. In the second row the marbles are spread out. The shorter row should have more marbles in it. Have them write down which row has more marbles. 3. Show the first twenty or so slides of the PowerPoint presentation. 4. Give the class a chance to get up and move around and also talk about Piaget by doing these two activities: · 1. Have the class arrange themselves according to height. When they are finished explain that they are obviously out of preschool because preschool children cannot arrange themselves according to height. · 2. Object Permanence—Have the students find the objects hidden in the room. 5. Talk about the experiments they did at the beginning of class. These experiments may have been easy for them, but not for a child who does not have the intellectual development required for those tasks. 6. Go through the rest of the PowerPoint. Students will participate in the above activities. Students will complete the Intellectual Development notes worksheet. View the featured link below on Jean Piaget's cognitive development and write a one page summary of Piaget's theory.
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