Answer the following questions:

1. What are primary-age children like?

2. What do primary-age children like to do?

3. Define peers, sense of industry, competence and concrete.

4. What do primary-age children need?

5. How do primary-age children learn best?

6. What are some of the concerns about public education?

7. Describe an environment for a sense of industry.

8. What is a benefit of the learning-center approach for primary-age children?

9. What is a planning contract?

10. What is an advantage to providing a number of separate learning centers?

11. What is a planning board?

12. Define portfolio.

13. How do teachers of primary-age children use portfolios and work samples?

14. What are two large and important learning centers related to literacy?

15. What should a writing center contain?

16. List four (4) suggestions for an environment that fosters early literacy.

17. Describe an environment that fosters math understanding.

18. Describe a physical environment that fosters scientific awareness.

19. Describe an environment for relationships.

20. List five (5) suggestions for fostering peer- and teacher-child relationships.

21. What is the problem with fragmented primary classroom schedules?

22. On what do you base an appropriate schedule for a primary classroom?

23. What is the problem with recess? Why have some schools abolished recess?

24. Define mixed-age groupings.

25. Describe after-school childcare.

26. What is the debate over television and video games?

27. List nine (9) suggestions for an appropriate after-school care environment.

28. Describe an inappropriate environment in primary classrooms. List six (6) elements.