Author Question: Several children are in an area of the room that is set up like a restaurant. Some children are ... (Read 18 times)

appyboo · **on:** Sep 15, 2018

Several children are in an area of the room that is set up like a restaurant. Some children are customers studying the day's menu and checking the prices; others are waitresses and waiters taking orders and collecting money; and others are the cooks pretending to measure and mix ingredients. This type of activity in early childhood classrooms would be considered to be

a. an excellent setup for applying mathematics and science understandings.
b. a waste of time for children, who should be memorizing math facts.
c. a waste of time for children, who should be reading their science textbooks.
d. far from being in line with national standards for mathematics and science instruction.

Question 2

Thematic units, projects, and dramatic play are the means for developing a curriculum that is

a. lecture based.
b. skills based.
c. integrated.
d. organized.