FACS 260 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS
Learning - Answers - Natural process of making sense of information and experience
that is fostered through interactions with others
Experience - Answers - relatively permanent influence on behaviors, knowledge, and
thinking skills comes through this
Believe - Answers - People learn best when they can __________ in themselves and
are confident that they can learn
Authentic Learning includes: - Answers - -Comprehension (Understanding or grasping)
and developing learners who see possibilities
-wanting to know about things
-using what they are learning
Five features of Authentic learning - Answers - 1) Use child's prior knowledge to spark
interest in meaningful, purposeful activities
2) Promote strategic thinkers
3) Involve some social interactions
4) Based on child's way of learning and displaying knowledge
5) Help children apply their learning to other situations
Awareness - Answers - of something you want to know more about
Exporation - Answers - Find ways to do things better
Inquiry - Answers - Apply and compare
Utilization - Answers - use the new skill
Cognitive Play - Answers - Rejects children's ages, understanding and experiences
Social play - Answers - Children's interaction with their peers
Benefits of Play - Answers - -It is symbolic and allows children to demonstrate what they
know
-Enables them to represent reality and mentally think through solutions to problems
-It is meaningful and helps children make sense of experiences
-it is active and is a natural process of mentality and physically doing something
-pleasurable even when activity is serious
-it is rule-governed and allows children to apply rules in a different setting
, -It is a child's language
Purposes of Play - Answers - -Fosters physical development
-Outdoor play connects children to nature and environment
-Fosters intellectual development
-Enhances social development
-Contains rich emotional values
-Develops creative aspects of child's personality
-Is deeply satisfying
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Functional Level - Answers - Babies- ages 0-2
Simple, repetitive, exploratory activities
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Constructive Play - Answers - Ages 2-4
Activity with a purpose or goal
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Dramatic Play - Answers - Ages 4-7
Pretend Circumstances
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Games with Rules - Answers - Ages 7-11
-Organized, competitive games developmentally inappropriate as well as uncreative for
preschool-aged children
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Unoccupied play - Answers -
Child is not playing, just observing
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Solitary Play - Answers - Child
plays alone
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Onlooker Play - Answers - Child
watches, has conversation with others at play, but does not actually engage in it
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Parallel Play - Answers - Beside,
but not with other children
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Associative play - Answers -
Playing together
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Cooperative play - Answers -
Playing together with role assigning and planning
Your role as a teacher: - Answers - -Allow children's ideas to develop without
dominating the play
-Prove equipment that encourages the use of imagination
-Select a variety of basic kinds of equipment
-Divide into different play stations
ANSWERS
Learning - Answers - Natural process of making sense of information and experience
that is fostered through interactions with others
Experience - Answers - relatively permanent influence on behaviors, knowledge, and
thinking skills comes through this
Believe - Answers - People learn best when they can __________ in themselves and
are confident that they can learn
Authentic Learning includes: - Answers - -Comprehension (Understanding or grasping)
and developing learners who see possibilities
-wanting to know about things
-using what they are learning
Five features of Authentic learning - Answers - 1) Use child's prior knowledge to spark
interest in meaningful, purposeful activities
2) Promote strategic thinkers
3) Involve some social interactions
4) Based on child's way of learning and displaying knowledge
5) Help children apply their learning to other situations
Awareness - Answers - of something you want to know more about
Exporation - Answers - Find ways to do things better
Inquiry - Answers - Apply and compare
Utilization - Answers - use the new skill
Cognitive Play - Answers - Rejects children's ages, understanding and experiences
Social play - Answers - Children's interaction with their peers
Benefits of Play - Answers - -It is symbolic and allows children to demonstrate what they
know
-Enables them to represent reality and mentally think through solutions to problems
-It is meaningful and helps children make sense of experiences
-it is active and is a natural process of mentality and physically doing something
-pleasurable even when activity is serious
-it is rule-governed and allows children to apply rules in a different setting
, -It is a child's language
Purposes of Play - Answers - -Fosters physical development
-Outdoor play connects children to nature and environment
-Fosters intellectual development
-Enhances social development
-Contains rich emotional values
-Develops creative aspects of child's personality
-Is deeply satisfying
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Functional Level - Answers - Babies- ages 0-2
Simple, repetitive, exploratory activities
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Constructive Play - Answers - Ages 2-4
Activity with a purpose or goal
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Dramatic Play - Answers - Ages 4-7
Pretend Circumstances
Piaget's Four Stages of Play: Games with Rules - Answers - Ages 7-11
-Organized, competitive games developmentally inappropriate as well as uncreative for
preschool-aged children
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Unoccupied play - Answers -
Child is not playing, just observing
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Solitary Play - Answers - Child
plays alone
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Onlooker Play - Answers - Child
watches, has conversation with others at play, but does not actually engage in it
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Parallel Play - Answers - Beside,
but not with other children
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Associative play - Answers -
Playing together
Mildred Patron's Six Stages of Children's Social Play: Cooperative play - Answers -
Playing together with role assigning and planning
Your role as a teacher: - Answers - -Allow children's ideas to develop without
dominating the play
-Prove equipment that encourages the use of imagination
-Select a variety of basic kinds of equipment
-Divide into different play stations
