Deck 7: Supporting Play in Primary School

Question 1

Primary play is dominated by pretend play.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Games should be a part of a primary math program.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A KWL is useful for organizing projects.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Project Approach discourages inquiry.

Question 5

Play in the primary grades is very similar to play in kindergarten.

Question 6

Teachers facilitate play in the primary years by creating the context for play.

Question 7

Symbolic play decreases during the primary years and the use of games with rules increases.

Question 8

Children in primary grades do not need individual work areas.

Question 9

Olivia and Stephen are playing with blocks in their third grade classroom because this is a good way to develop their mathematical skills.

Question 10

Play at the primary level includes more inquiry and less pretense.

Question 11

Large group meetings are not appropriate for primary classes.

Question 12

Aesthetics are important in designing spaces for primary classrooms.

Question 13

Boys and girls in the United States have similar scores on math tests.

Question 14

Games can be used to teach academic concepts in multiage classes.

Question 15

Manipulatives should not be used with upper primary children.

Question 16

Primary teachers should design play places as carefully as preschool teachers.

Question 17

Purposeful risk taking increases during the primary years.

Question 18

Local culture should be used to inform curriculum.

Question 19

Teachers can integrate curriculum through the use of units and themes.

Question 20

Children who use games instead of worksheets can compete equally well on computation tests.

Question 21

The primary method of assessment currently used for children in most primary grades include:

A) quizzes and tests.
B) standardized tests.
C) portfolios.
D) project work.
E) both A and B.

Question 22

Children in the primary grades are generally in the ________ play stage.

A) sensorimotor
B) preoperational
C) concrete operational
D) formal operations
E) games with rules

Question 23

____ is generally used to describe a chart that answers three questions: What do we know? What do we want to know? and What did we learn?

A) KFW
B) KFC
C) KWL
D) KLL
E) None of the above

Question 24

When children play with blocks to create triangles and polygons, they learn ____________________.

Question 25

An aesthetics-based approach to curriculum encourages combining:

A) music and math.
B) art and literacy.
C) movement and social studies.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Question 26

List three ways teachers support play.

Question 27

Three approaches to Social Studies are _________________, ________________, and __________________.

Question 28

Characteristics that impact the play of school age children include:

A) need for order.
B) need to belong.
C) sense of self.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Question 29

The first step in developing a project involves ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 30

According to Piaget, primary age children are in the _________________________ stage.

Question 31

___________________________________ is the scale used to evaluate afterschool programs.

Question 32

The developmental-interaction approach was developed by:

A) Bank Street College of Education.
B) Reggio Emilia Municipal Center.
C) Selma Wasserman.
D) Jean Piaget.
E) none of the above.

Question 33

A characteristic of young children that predisposes them to science is:

A) natural curiosity.
B) a desire to collect "stuff."
C) a need to belong or interact with others to solve problems.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Question 34

The primary classroom should include areas that provide places for:

A) large meeting spaces.
B) individual work spaces.
C) interest centers.
D) learning centers.
E) all of the above.

Question 35

The context for play in a primary classroom might include places for _________________________ or _________________________.

Question 36

____________________ dominate primary play.

Question 37

Authentic assessment should include:

A) games.
B) portfolios.
C) project work.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Question 38

____ are NOT considered an appropriate math activity in a play-based curriculum.

A) Worksheets
B) Manipulatives
C) Games
D) Blocks
E) All of the above

Question 39

Somewhere around age 4 , the child's vision is developed well enough to focus on print.

Question 40

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommends an emphasis on _________________________ and _________________________ during the primary years.

Question 44

Authentic assessment is continuous, ongoing assessment and includes games, team work, portfolios, and project work.

Question 46

The focus of Wasserman's primary play model is to foster the development of competent "can-do" students.

Question 50

In the Wasserman primary play model, replaying involves reflecting and reconsidering findings developed during the play experience.

Question 52

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics established state standards as guidelines for developing state requirements in math.

Question 54

One goal of science instruction is to encourage inquiry as a way of investigating the world .

Question 57

The primary advantage of the project approach is assessment.

Question 58

Combining art and literacy decreases possibilities for neurological connections in an aesthetics-based approach.

Question 59

High-stakes testing , which occurs as a routine part of many primary classrooms, serves as a deterrent to innovative play based programs.

Question 60

Constance Kami (2000) documented the use of games to teach young children math .