JEAN PIAGET
RELATIONAL CONCEPTS
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
YOUR TURN
 Classify the contents of the bag your group received
 Classification activity as per “teacher categories”
 Stump the teacher!
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.
YOUR TURN
 Seriation Activity as per “teacher instructions”
 String “Fruit Loops” onto yarn based on teacher order
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
TEAM ACTIVIT Y
 Hula Hoop Line
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.
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
LACK OF IDENTIT Y
 Menard the Cat
LACK OF MATTER & MASS
LACK OF LIQUID/VOLUME
LACK OF NUMBERS
LACK OF MONEY
EXPERIMENTS IN ACTION
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnArvcWaH6I