There are multiple reasons for studying how people learn. By learning about how people learn, students may be able to learn more effectively themselves and to know what difficulties they may face. This level is the time to be sure that all children know that they can learn almost anything they want to.
Children are most interested in learning about their surroundings.
They should be encouraged to notice how they learn by asking them how they learned something in the past or how they might learn to do something new or by having them teach a skill to someone else. Grades 3 through 5 As children's self-awareness increases, they want to know more about their personal capabilities, what they might be able to do and know. They should be given many opportunities to explore areas of personal interest and develop new skills. By the end of 5th grade, students should know Human beings can use the memory of their past experiences to make judgments about new situations. Learning means using what one already knows to make sense out of new experiences or information, not just storing the new information in one's head.