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Piggins, Carol Ann – Day Care and Early Education, 1979
Suggests educational games that reinforce directional concepts, color recognition, and listening skills. (MP)
Descriptors: Color, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Games
Peer reviewedFeher, Elsa; Meyer, Karen Rice – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1992
Discusses children's ideas about colored objects and colored shadows, with special attention to the organization of these ideas into mental models. The clarification of these models provides instructional tools that serve to assess and confront students' naive conceptions. Subjects were visitors to a science museum who engaged in interactive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Color, Concept Formation
Download full textAnderson, Charles W.; Smith, Edward L. – 1986
This study focused on misconceptions related to light and vision. Researchers administered diagnostic tests about light, vision, and color before and after instruction to 227 fifth-grade students over a 2-year period. They also conducted 11 clinical interviews. The tests and interviews revealed that almost all students shared certain…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Color, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedMebane, Robert C.; Rector, Bronwyn – Science and Children, 1991
Presents activities that utilize balloons to encourage students to explore questions related to scientific concepts. Concepts explored include light, heat, charged ions, polarization, and the sense of smell. (MDH)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Color, Concept Formation, Discovery Learning
Flowers, Toni – 1987
Over 175 activities are described for helping children with autism in the following areas: auditory development (discrimination and memory); concept development (body concept, body in space/direction, size, time, shapes, same/different, color, numbers); social development; speech and language development; and visual-motor integration. The purpose,…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Autism, Color
