![]() ![]() ![]() The Sensing Science through Modeling Matter project is developing and researching a technology-enriched curriculum to support learning about matter and its changes at the kindergarten level. Traditionally, the particle-based world is introduced in upper elementary grades or later when children already hold well-formed but incorrect ideas that are consequently difficult to change. It has long been assumed that the particulate nature of matter is too abstract for young children to understand. The Concord Consortium creates tools for children of all ages that provide firsthand evidence to test their developing theories and grow their knowledge about the world around them, including the hidden world of atoms and molecules that we can’t see or touch. “What do I see/hear/feel? What do I know already? How does this relate to what I think I know?” They can then explicitly or implicitly affirm beliefs or reformulate theories. With each new experience, they test their naive beliefs (or in the research literature, their “theories in action”) against the evidence. Children learn by constructing knowledge.
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