ECE I 6.01

Which math activity is developmentally appropriate for seven-year-olds?

• James is teaching the children to tell time to the nearest minute.

• Kathy is using flash cards to help the children tell time in five-minute intervals.

• Kathy is using flash cards to help the children tell time in five-minute intervals.

• Mark has prepared manipulatives to teach the children about fractions.

Which art activity is developmentally appropriate for eight-year-olds?

• Connect the dots to make basic shapes

• Find natural objects to represent the elements and principles of design

• Use brushes to paint their own self-portraits

• Use the computer to design a room arrangement

Which music and movement activity is developmentally appropriate for five-year-olds?

• Do a body percussion activity

• Have children stand on one another’s shoulders to build a human pyramid

• Hold a dance contest and award prizes

• Teach children to square dance with a caller to call out moves

Which language activity is developmentally appropriate for three-year-olds?

• Which language activity is developmentally appropriate for three-year-olds?

• Ask children to write stories about themselves

• Have children look at picture books

• Teach children to write in cursive

Which social studies activity is developmentally appropriate for three-year-olds?

• Have children complete a display project on a social studies topic of interest.

• Have children deliver campaign speeches and elect class officers.

• Have children view pictures of people of different ethnicities to find things they have in common.

• Plan with children a fund-raiser to help homeless people.

Which social studies activity is developmentally appropriate for six-year-olds?

• Nancy invited a town commissioner to talk with her class about local political issues.

• Pat is taking her class on a tour of a nearby fire station.

• Randy is teaching his class the capital cities of all fifty states.

• Samuel is showing his class some pictures of starving children in other lands.

Which music and movement activity is developmentally appropriate for seven-year-olds?

• Edith is teaching the children to clap to the beat of the song.

• Fran plans to have the children learn to waltz

• Greg is helping the children create dance motions for an original song.

• Harriett has taught the children to sit quietly and listen to the music.

Which language activity is developmentally appropriate for seven-year-olds?

• Jan is teaching the children how to be active listeners as they talk with one another.

• Kirk plans to have the children learn the definitions of the parts of speech.

• Lisa is helping the children learn to speak in front of small audiences.

• Mandy is using flash cards to teach the children the letters of the alphabet.

Which language activity is developmentally appropriate for children in third grade?

• Drill and practice to learn letters of the alphabet

• Memorize all of the synonyms and definitions for a set of words

• Read a poem and a story about animal life cycles

• Write a term paper with bibliography about American literature

Which music activity is developmentally appropriate for five-year-olds?

• Have children write both words and music for original songs

• Teach children to dance the cha-cha

• Teach children to play the violin and other stringed instruments

• Use the phrase method to teach the words of a song