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What is the role of the adult in a science activity?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Children are said to construct their own knowledge. What does that mean?
 
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Answer to Question 1

The adult validates what the children are learning; asks divergent questions; conveys to children that what they are doing is worthwhile as learners, as critical thinkers, as scientists, as mathematicians.

Answer to Question 2

They form concepts as a result of their own experiences and their own thinking about those experiences.



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