Critical Thinking Exercise. Read the paragraphs below and answer briefly
questions # 1-8.
You have decided to open a baby setting service for children from 18 months to 12 years of age. Your advertising campaign is based on your intention to provide children with intellectually stimulated activities. To design activities that will be appropriate for children of different ages, you decide to follow Piaget’s stage of theory of cognitive development.
Your task in this exercise is to imagine the view point of the children at various stages of cognitive development. For the moment, set aside what you think about the intellectual abilities of children of various ages and try to identify with unique ways in which they experience the world. Then describe two or three intellectually stimulating activities that would be appropriate for each group.
1. How does the 18-month old child experience the world?
2. What activities would you plan for an 18-month old child?
3. How does a 5year old child experience the world?
4. What activities would you plan for a 5 year old child?
5. How does an 8 year old child experience the world?
6. What activities would you plan for an 8 year old child?
7. How does a 12 year old child experience the world?
8. What activities would you plan for a 12 year old child?