Here are some assumptions about young learners to help you plan and implement instructional methods.
Children are curious .
Their need to explore and manipulate should be fulfilled through handling real things that involve more than one sense. The more all the senses are involved , the more effective the learning experience. Most human activity is a purposeful search for pattern. This includes organizing new information and relating it to previously developed concepts. Incongruity between old patterns and new experiences stimulates questioning, observation, manipulation, and application in a variety of new situations.