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ERIC Number: EJ412374
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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Time Concepts for Elementary School Children.
Muir, Sharon Pray
Social Education, v54 n4 p215-18,247 Apr-May 1990
Points out that children have difficulty learning time concepts. Presents instructional activities for concepts associated with clocks, calendars, and chronology. Outlines Jerome Bruner's three different stages of representation for each concept: enactive, iconic, and symbolic. (DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Activities, Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Time
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers: Bruner (Jerome S); Calendars; Chronology; Clocks