The benefits of blocks are primarily that they enhance
a. large and small muscle development involved in lifting, bending, stretching, reaching, manipulating, and balancing blocks.
b. cognitive concepts, because blocks naturally promote matching, noting similarities and differences, comparison, and addition/subtraction.
c. creativity as children build a variety of structures and patterns, role-play, or engage in problem solving.
d. All of these answers.
Question 2
The outdoor play area and childrens outdoor play can enhance social skills, such as sharing and cooperation,
a. by ensuring that children have to wait for a turn to use popular items such as swings and tricycles.
b. when children are told that they must follow the rules so that others do not get hurt.
c. by providing equipment such as tire swings on which several children can swing together, wide slides on which more than one child can slide down, or movable equipment with which the children can build new structures together.
d. by providing a time and place in which teachers do not get involved so that children have to solve their own social conflicts.
Vacuoles in Plant Cells Are Usually Large
The Very Large Array (VLA)
Notice the small motor gear on the left drives a larger plastic gear (black), which then drives ...
Social Development
Slopes and Soil Development
Cardiac Muscle Tissue