Early in her research, Dixson made some videos for people in Fiji. The videos explained her work to the local community. She says she wanted them to understand how her research would help them. For the local children, Dixson started making books explaining her work. This helped to keep them...
People have been increasing the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as CO2, through burning coal, oil and gas. This adds to the power of the greenhouse effect, making the planet even warmer. Many scientists believe that, if the warming is not stopped, there will be huge climate changes...
Most parents notice that children learn alanguagein a standard sort of way—they pick up words as labels for things and then one day, start assembling words they have learned into sentences. Linguists have noticed that the changeover from speaking words to speaking sentences is usually quite abru...
Thelearningstyle of numeracy is given more emphasis today to make them understand it much better. In the early years emphasis is made on how to make children understand different methods of working out to be able to arrive to an answer. Working with children the aim is to give children ...
2.1 Children and young people learn through new and exciting environments and by making choices in these environments. However, children lack judgement and cant always make safe choices. Therefore carers and adults have the responsibility to identify hazards and ensure that environments are safe for ...
Earlyinherresearch,DixonmadesomevideosforpeopleinFiji.Thevideosexplainedherworktothelocalcommunity.Shesaysshewantedthemtounderstandhowherresearchwouldhelpthem.Forthelocalchildren,Dixonstartedmakingbooksexplainingherwork.Thishelpedtokeepthemfromwalkingthroughher"laboratory"-babypoolsfilledwithwatershewasusingforher...
★ Guide and advise your children how to spend their money, rather than tell them what they can and cannot do. ★ Encourage and praise children rather than criticize their actions.★ Allow children to learn by mistakes and by successes. ★ Be consistent(前后一致的) while taking children’s ...
However, when asked which book they preferred they tended to choose the book loaded with causal information, suggesting that the children were influenced by this key difference. "We believe this result may be due to children's natural desire to learn about how the world works," explains ...
(Lipkens et al.,1993) and in preschool children (Smeets et al.,2001), so it is known that very young children can demonstrate stimulus equivalence or relations of sameness. It is less clear how young children fare in experimental preparations designed to train more complex relations such as...
At that time, most students in our school attended the college to please their parents, and some parents were proud of their children for simply attending a college, no-matter whether they benefited or not. They didn’t study hard. But a few students were diligent and they wanted to study...