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ELG IT Cognitive
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Activities | Experiences planned by the educator that create opportunities for children to explore and learn about their world |
| Assessment | The process of gathering information about children from several forms of evidence, then organizing and interpreting that information. Progress reports are considered |
| Attention Maintenance | The developing ability to attend to people and things while interacting with others and exploring the environment and play materials |
| Cause and effect | A relationship between actions or events such that one is a result of the other |
| Classification | The developing ability to group, sort, categorize, connect, and have expectations of objects and people according to their attributes |
| Creativity | Showing originality or imagination |
| Curiosity | a desire to know or learn more about something |
| Evidence | An outward sign or indication. In child assessment, this would be an indication of a child’s development or learning. |
| Examine | To observe, test, or investigate |
| Experiment | An action used to discover something unknown; to test a principle or idea |
| Explore | To investigate or study |
| Imitation | The developing ability to mirror, repeat, and practice the actions of others, either immediately or later |
| Investigate | To study the details, to examine, or to observe in order to gain knowledge |
| Memory | The developing ability to store and later retrieve information about past experiences |
| Number Sense | The developing understanding of number and quantity |
| Object permanence | Understanding that items that are out of sight still exist |
| Problem solving | Behaviors practiced by young children that allow them to explore questions or situations and try different solutions |
| Prompt | To encourage an action or behavior |
| Prop | Any object used by children during play |
| Spatial Relationships | The developing understanding of how things move and fit in space |
| Scientific inquiry | The process of exploring, experimenting, asking questions about, and describing the environment |
| Sensory materials | Materials and experiences that stimulate at least one of the five senses |
| Symbolic Play | The developing ability to use actions, objects, or ideas to represent other actions, objects, or ideas Tools |
| Trial and error | Attempting to solve a problem by randomly trying different approaches |
| Art media | A variety of paint types and art materials, such as markers, crayons, and chalk |