Deck 4: Awakening the Senses

Question 1

Why is it important to know the primary colors?

A)They are the cheapest to buy.
B)Many other colors can be made from them.
C)The children like them best.
D)They are the brightest and most cheerful.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Dana is a new preschool teacher.What would you advise her to avoid in selecting activities for her toddlers?

A)sensory activities that activate multiple senses because they will confuse them
B)tactile experiences because they had enough of them as infants
C)auditory experiences because they will get them too excited
D)sensory experiences that involve easily swallowed materials

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following would be an effective way to present a conch shell as a sensory experience?

A)Put the shell in the corner on a bookshelf.
B)Read a description from a book.
C)Show a picture of the shell.
D)Put the shell on a table near the doorway.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is true of the sense perception of infants and toddlers?

A)Within hours of birth, newborns have a sense of size and shape.
B)In their first days, babies prefer simple shapes over complex ones.
C)Babies require two years to develop a linear perspective to locate objects.
D)Children can't differentiate emotional expressions of adults until they are two years old.

Question 5

Harriet, a preschool teacher, sets up a table with a variety of fruits for the children to smell and taste.Activities like these help children improve what sense?

A)tactile
B)auditory
C)visual
D)gustatory

Question 6

Knowing the elements of art is important because they:

A)provide a vocabulary for describing the arts.
B)make the arts more creative.
C)help artists work in different styles.
D)strengthen an artist's self-confidence.

Question 7

Which of the following statements would increase children's sensory awareness?

A)"That's a nice painting."
B)"Which is stickier, the paste or the glue?"
C)"You used a lot of paste."
D)"Why did you put the red shape there?"

Question 8

The baric sense is the ability to:

A)make sense of sounds from different sources.
B)sense three-dimensional forms by touch alone.
C)make sense of meaningful words from noise.
D)judge the weight on an object.

Question 9

Discriminating sounds, pitches, and rhythms is the main function of what kind of perception?

A)visual
B)auditory
C)olfactory
D)gustatory

Question 10

Which sense is key for recognizing colors, shapes, and dimensions?

A)olfactory
B)tactile
C)gustatory
D)visual

Question 11

For the safety of infants, select materials that are:

A)soft and easily broken down into dusty particles.
B)hard to chew.
C)about 2 inches in length and 1 inch in diameter.
D)smaller than their thumbs.

Question 12

Sensory experiences can be adapted to meet the needs of children of different ages and those with sensory integration dysfunction (SID) by:

A)keeping the activity the same but adding more materials.
B)keeping the activity very simple, but talking about it more with older children.
C)making the activity less open-ended for the younger children and those with SID.
D)varying the amount of adult-child interaction and the number of children involved in the activity.

Question 13

Visual perception is the ability to:

A)see with your eyes.
B)touch things you can see.
C)see, recognize, and mentally manipulate shapes, colors, and images.
D)judge weight and temperature.

Question 14

Children with sensory integration dysfunction respond best to activities that:

A)immerse them in intense physical stimulation.
B)provide slow careful exposure to physical stimulation.
C)prevent them from physically touching anything.
D)make them touch different materials.

Question 15

Which of the following sensory activities is most appropriate for children with limited vision?

A)exploring objects that reflect light
B)exploring objects of different weights
C)exploring objects as they move back and forth
D)exploring two-dimensional objects

Question 16

Which of the following statements would develop tactile perception?

A)"Look at all the colors on that quilt!"
B)"Doesn't the quilt feel fluffy?"
C)"Can you see the pattern in the quilt?"
D)"How many rectangular shapes can you count?"

Question 17

How can color-blind children participate in color activities?

A)Use scented materials and arrange colors in the same order every time.
B)Emphasize the names of colors.
C)Encourage children to use the correct colors.
D)Don't provide materials in colors they can't see.

Question 18

What would be the best response to a child who has just mixed together all the paint colors into a muddy brown mess?

A)"Too bad.Now you have no more pretty colors."
B)"Don't mix the colors.It just makes a mess."
C)"When all the colors mixed, what color did you get?"
D)"Artists usually mix only two colors together."

Question 19

Sarah, a preschool teacher, introduces her students to cups of water at different safe temperatures.The children dip their fingers in and order the cups from cold to warm water.Which of the following is a part of the tactile sense that the children explore with this task?

A)baric
B)stereognostic
C)thermic
D)gustatory

Question 20

Jayla, a kindergarten teacher, selects an abalone shell as a stimulus for a sensory arts activity.Her next task is to:

A)imitate the children's behavior with the shell.
B)point to the shell and say something engaging.
C)give enthusiastic verbal feedback.
D)observe and assess the children as they respond to the shell.

Question 21

Explain why sensory perception activities are important for children of all ages.

Question 22

What would be a good way to help hearing-impaired children become aware of rhythms?

A)Let them watch other children play the drums.
B)Let them play a drum by themselves.
C)Let them touch a drum while it is being played.
D)Move their arms to the music.

Question 23

Explain how you would use a children's book to develop sustained attention and focus and to introduce the elements of the arts.What are three wonderings you could say?

Question 24

On a separate sheet of paper draw a picture that uses the elements of arts mentioned in Chapter 4.Write a description of the artwork, describing the elements and how they are used.Write five sensory statements or wonderings you could say about the work.

Question 25

Matching
Match the activity to the perception area it develops best.
a. visual perception b. tactile perception
c. auditory perception d. taste perception
e. olfactory perception
looking through prisms

Question 26

Matching
Match the activity to the perception area it develops best.
a. visual perception b. tactile perception
c. auditory perception d. taste perception
e. olfactory perception
trying to guess what is inside a shaker

Question 27

Give examples of how sensory perception activities help children develop physically, socially, emotionally, cognitively, linguistically, and creatively.

Question 28

Matching
Match the activity to the perception area it develops best.
a. visual perception b. tactile perception
c. auditory perception d. taste perception
e. olfactory perception
playing at a sand table

Question 29

Matching
Match the activity to the perception area it develops best.
a. visual perception b. tactile perception
c. auditory perception d. taste perception
e. olfactory perception
comparing the smell of different flowers

Question 30

Explain why using certain foods as sensory objects may offend some parents.

Question 31

Matching
Match the activity to the perception area it develops best.
a. visual perception b. tactile perception
c. auditory perception d. taste perception
e. olfactory perception
making and eating a snack made from fresh fruit

Question 32

For each arts element, describe a related activity.line
shape space color
pattern and rhythm form
texture movement