Audience+Members

=Just as students grow and mature physically, they grow and mature intellectually as well. This unit of study was developed for students in two very distinct age groups: 2nd grade and 6th grade.=

=//2nd Grade Students (7 years old): Concrete Operational Stage-Piaget describes students between the ages of 7 and 11 as being in the Concrete Operational Stage. These students "think logically and operations are associated with personal experience." Thus stated, students this age do not think in abstraction. It is difficult for them to see beyond their personal experiences and understand the world outside their own. Therefore, it will be imperative in the second grade unit for students to manipulate and experience within the context of their "world." The unit of study for 2nd graders will involve ways that they and their families can make our world greener through recycling, reusing, and conserving.//= = = =//6th Grade Students (11-12 years old): Formal Operational Stage-Piaget describes students in this age group as Formal Operational. "Students have the ability to consider many possibilities for a given condition, and they have the ability to think abstractly." Abstract thinking skills will allow these students to consider the world outside their own. The unit of study for 6th graders will involve ways that they can understand and be involved in community and world projects to help clean up our environment.//=