Sensorimotor stage:
This stage from (birth to 2).
children experience the world and trying to make
sense of the world through their senses and motor
skills. Children use their abilities such as(looking,
sucking, grasping, and listening) to know more
about the environment.
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Observing: At this stage children want to learn
everything around them. Also they ask question about
what they observe.(when the child go to the park he asks
to much question to know more about the animals).
Pre- operational stage:
This stage from(2 to 7 years).
In second stage children learn to use symbols of
language to explain what they mean and get
what they want. Children can mentally represent
events and objects and engage in symbolic play.
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Observing: At this stage they focus more in
observing to discover new thing around them.
Classifying : children have the ability to gather
their object by themselves.(when I asked my little
sister to arrange her toys she directly put the
animals together and the dolls together).
Concrete operational stage :
This stage from (7 to 11 years).
In third stage is the beginning of logical
or operational thought, The child is now mature
enough to use logical thought or operations to
absorb things easily. Children gain the abilities of
conservation(number, area, volume).
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Measuring: students can measure things in details more
than preoperational stage , they can measure water
temperature.
Analyzing: children can break a complex
object, event into parts and know the components
of it.( when the teacher gives the student stem
and students have to know the component o it).
Formal operational stage:
This stage from (11 to adulthood).
In the final stage people develop the ability to think
about abstract concepts and know more about the
details by use skills such as ( logical thought and
systematic planning) that will help them to solve
problems and obtain solutions.
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Communicating: people can get new information from
each other by share their ideas and their opinions. From
their experiences.
Hypothesizing: they have the ability to set a
hypothesis according to their prediction.
Inferring: they can make series of what they see and
know what's happen by their observations.
When they see the waves are moving from car window
they directly inferred that the wind is blowing.
Generating : Expressing thoughts that reveal originality,
speculation, imagination, a personal perspective, flexibility
in thinking, invention or creativity