Sentences with phrase «young children experiment»

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The classic Marshmallow Experiment of 1972 involved placing a marshmallow in front of a young child, with the promise of a second marshmallow if he or she could refrain from eating the squishy blob while a researcher stepped out of the room for 15 minutes.

Jesus as «the light of the world» is purely metaphorical in its meaning and even experiments with light will not be of much help with younger children.

I know I should experiment more with lower sugar baking as it's so much better for young children.

Younger children will just enjoying rolling the eggs, but for older children you can spend time planning the experiment, thinking about which factors you need to keep constant and how to display your results.

I think you did a great job with this experiment for a very young child.

Todays experiment is very simple, but hopefully fascinating for even very young children.

This rain cloud in a jar is a weather science experiment gives young children a chance to explore clouds and rain in a hands - on and engaging way!

When our children were young, my wife and I experiment with co-sleeping and other techniques that are now known, in the aggregate, as attachment parenting.

Even tweens can help a younger child with reading, math games or simple kitchen science experiments.

Since our readers are looking for experiments to try with their 5 - 12 year olds, we feel that making a parallel comparison of «breathing» or respiration for plants and humans helps children to better understand the process of photosynthesis at a younger age.

Young children usually swear to experiment with language, while adults often swear out of anger.

Younger children can also use them for such learning activities as counting games and experimenting with basic addition and subtraction.

It would look like providing a safe environment and the freedom for your young child to explore and experiment and test her personal boundaries to discover what she's capable of.

The kid friendly channel has a long list of really cool, interesting, and incredible science experiments that will encourage young children to get more involved in science.

As researchers began to understand the importance of vitamin C, for example, they began to experiment with the assortment and timing of introducing foods rich in vitamin C to young children.

Whatever the plot — adventures in Dinosaur Expedition, experiments in WaterWays or construction in Skyline — these movies serve as a platform for enhancing young children's language and cognitive skills, and deepening the value of their museum - going experience.

We've done lots of water experiments in the past, so I wanted to focus on introducing the properties of water to young children.

Young children benefit from doing experiments like this even if they can't totally comprehend the science involved.

«Free schools are a costly and unnecessary experiment in children's education that provides no guarantees to parents or to children and young people.

Not only are there huge social costs to this experiment: — the failing businesses — the closed libraries and children's centres — the tragedy of another lost generation of young people out of work

This kit welcomes young children to the field of engineering with 25 experiments and building projects.

What varied across experiments was the duration for which the face was exposed, from barely a glimpse — unlikely to be seen at all — to a sizable fraction of a second that, at least in older children, is invariably associated with the conscious sight of a smiling young woman.

A young girl participating in an experiment studying how children divide resources that can not be shared equally, at the Science Museum in Jerusalem.

For years, Pearson struggled to carve out a niche for himself in his community, dropping out of school, fathering a child while still very young, experimenting with drugs, and moving from low - level job to low - level job.

Besides being a columnist for daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, he set up a Web site with physics experiments for children and frequently introduced promising young scientists to a wider audience in a popular daily talkshow.

Although some vision experiments can be tricky to adapt to animals that can't respond to verbal instructions, the tests for color - blindness, called the Cambridge Color Test, were nearly identical to those given to young children.

Davis herself concluded her experiment showed the food selection for young children should be left «in the hands of their elders where everyone has always known it belongs.»

In this experiment, children younger than 6 mo were considered not susceptible due to protection from maternal antibodies (17).

But MPs including Gordon Brown and David Cameron, who both have young children with severe medical conditions, agreed on a free vote that the benefits of stem cell research using embryos were such that experiments, including the use of human admixed embryos, should be allowed.

In the first of this trilogy by Philip Pullman, you'll meet Lyra Belacqua, our young heroine, who tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments.

«A dominant metaphor for young children's cognitive development is that the child is a scientist who does handson experiments, such as with things that float versus sink, and revises his or her ideas about the world like a scientist,» Harris says.

The authors describe psychological experiments in which even very young children show a strong preference for the equal distribution of resources to members of a group.

Alongside the study, further experiments in school canteens tracked the eating behaviours of children in primary and secondary schools and found that even small improvements to dining spaces can make young people eat more school food.

Note: Younger children might prefer the simpler version of this experiment provided at Kids CORNer, a site maintained by the Ohio Corn Marketing Program.

For second - grade teacher Jacqueline Fiorentino, the minor benefits of homework did not outweigh the potential drawback of turning young children against school at an early age, so she experimented with dropping mandatory homework.

For decades, American schools have been engaged in a failed experiment, attempting to cram more content into a typical teaching day than humanly possible, asking children to learn overwhelming content at younger and younger ages without taking the time to build the foundation skills needed for learning success or behavioral success, and creating anxiety - filled classrooms in which children are less likely to fall deeply in love with learning.

In the famous Stanford marshmallow experiment, young children were offered one small marshmallow now, or two marshmallows in 15 minutes if they could resist eating the first one.

In the early years, young children need to explore, discover, and experiment.

The treats feature prominently in a series of fiendish experiments conducted on young children.

His well - known «Kuleshov Effect» seemed to prove the point: in the experiment, Kuleshov cut between the expressionless shot of a famous Russian silent film actor (Ivan Mozzhukhin) and a variety of other shots: a young woman reposed on a chaise, a child in a coffin, a bowl of soup.

In between, we discover paintings on canvas and ink drawings of larger - than - life heads, full - length nudes, Ms. Dumas's daughter as a young child, raunchy strippers, political commentary, and more, from early experiments with a variety of conceptually based approaches to an idiosyncratic, continuing series of portraits of «Great Men.»

Isabel was able to skillfully transition to other media, including wood, metal, fabric, and paper, which she experimented with while raising young children, though she returned to stone as soon as she had the time.

He began making and exhibiting work in San Francisco while concurrently conducting experiments on young children.

The gallery - teaching programe Kunsthalle KIDS, aimed at families and schools, will continue its work with the young viewer; and again there will be guided tours to the exhibitions and the Child Curator programe, as well as education for adults in the Experiment Art cycle.

The UN estimates that poor nutrition already accounts for around 3 million deaths among young children every year, and experiments show that higher carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are associated with protein losses of around 5 %.

When we choose activities for Berta and her young experimenter friends, we always look for these key elements: - Safety: can the children safely experiment with the ingredients, even if some of them happen to end up in their mouths (it doesn't matter if they taste bad — but they have to be edible to find this out)?

«The results suggest that pretending to be a popular fictional character helps young children to resist distraction, at least compared to the other conditions used in this experiment.

Indeed, two earlier issues of The Future of Children, one in 1993 and the other in 1999, have focused on home - visiting programs for families with young children, 2 and several articles in other issues of the journal have also touched on the topic.3 A number of good meta - analyses have been published in other journals as well, although some include only randomized experiments while others include both experimental and non-experimental evChildren, one in 1993 and the other in 1999, have focused on home - visiting programs for families with young children, 2 and several articles in other issues of the journal have also touched on the topic.3 A number of good meta - analyses have been published in other journals as well, although some include only randomized experiments while others include both experimental and non-experimental evchildren, 2 and several articles in other issues of the journal have also touched on the topic.3 A number of good meta - analyses have been published in other journals as well, although some include only randomized experiments while others include both experimental and non-experimental evidence.4

Just as young learners observe and experiment, we in the developmental early learning system are trying new things to better support families in preparing children for success in school and in life.

The authors meet anyone who works with young children where they are and invite them to experiment with introducing small changes to their teaching and classroom environment.