Cognitive Competencies

Infants & Toddlers Cognitive Development Lesson 5 Explore Cognitive Competencies Reflection	WWW.VIRTUALLABSCHOOL.ORG ACTIVITY ID: 24316 Name Certifier Date
Consider the different ways the infants and toddlers in your care engage in activities together. Use the information below to learn about various skills within the cognitive development domain and expectations of how infants and toddlers learn the given skills. Reflect on your previous experience and knowledge of child development to document examples of how each age group learns cognitive development skills through play. The Cause & Effect Skill has been completed as an example. Cognitive Skill: Cause & Effect Experience/Activity: Building with Blocks Age range: Birth to 8 months; Learning Standard: Use simple actions to make things happen. Expectations: Explores blocks by mouthing, grasping, or hitting together. Age range: 6 to 18 months; Learning Standard: Purposefully combine actions to make things happen. Expectations: Waits for adult to stack blocks then knocks tower over and claps. Age range: 16 to 36 months; Learning Standard: Demonstrate understanding that events have a cause; make predictions. Expectations: Places larger block on the bottom and smaller blocks on top. Cognitive Skill: Spatial Awareness Experience/Activity: Sand Play in the Sensory Table Age range: Birth to 8 months; Learning Standard: Explore the properties of an object. Expectations: Age range: 6 to 18 months; Learning Standard: Explore how things fit and move in space. Expectations: Age range: 16 to 36 months; Learning Standard: Demonstrate how things fit together or move in space with increasing accuracy. Expectations: Cognitive Skill: Reasoning & Problem Solving Experience/Activity: Climbing on Mats Age range: Birth to 8 months; Learning Standard: Actively use the body to find out about the world. Expectations: Age range: 6 to 18 months; Learning Standard: Use simple strategies to solve problems with support from a caregiver. Expectations: Age range: 16 to 36 months; Learning Standard: Solve problems without having to try every possibility while avoiding solutions that clearly will not work. Expectations: Cognitive Skill: Social Identity Experience/Activity: Dramatic Play with Dolls Age range: Birth to 8 months; Learning Standard: Show awareness of self and awareness of other people. Expectations: Age range: 6 to 18 months; Learning Standard: Prefer familiar adults and recognize familiar actions and routines. Expectations: Age range: 16 to 36 months; Learning Standard: Identify self and others as belonging to one or more groups by observable characteristics. Expectations: Cognitive Skill: Memory Experience/Activity: Nature Walk Age range: Birth to 8 months; Learning Standard: Exhibit different responses to familiar and unfamiliar people, places, and things. Expectations: Age range: 6 to 18 months; Learning Standard: Recall information over a period of time with contextual clues. Expectations: Age range: 16 to 36 months; Learning Standard: Recall information over a longer period of time without contextual clues. Expectations: Cognitive Skill: Group and Categorize Experience/Activity: Manipulating Farm Animal Figurines Age range: Birth to 8 months; Learning Standard: Notice difference between familiar and unfamiliar people, places, and things. Expectations: Age range: 6 to 18 months; Learning Standard: Match two objects that are the same and select similar objects from a group. Expectations: Age range: 16 to 36 months; Learning Standard: Sort objects into two or more groups by their properties and uses. Expectations:

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Consider the different ways the infants and toddlers in your care engage in activities together. Use the information below to learn about various skills within the cognitive development domain and expectations of how infants and toddlers learn the given skills. Reflect on your previous experience and knowledge of child development to document examples of how each age group learns cognitive development skills through play. The Cause & Effect Skill has been completed as an example.

Cognitive Skill: Cause & Effect

Experience/Activity: Building with Blocks

Age range: Birth to 8 months;
Learning Standard: Use simple actions to make things happen.

Expectations: Explores blocks by mouthing, grasping, or hitting together.

Age range: 6 to 18 months;
Learning Standard: Purposefully combine actions to make things happen.

Expectations: Waits for adult to stack blocks then knocks tower over and claps.

Age range: 16 to 36 months;
Learning Standard: Demonstrate understanding that events have a cause; make predictions.

Expectations: Places larger block on the bottom and smaller blocks on top.

Cognitive Skill: Spatial Awareness

Experience/Activity: Sand Play in the Sensory Table

Age range: Birth to 8 months;
Learning Standard: Explore the properties of an object.

Expectations:

Age range: 6 to 18 months;
Learning Standard: Explore how things fit and move in space.

Expectations:

Age range: 16 to 36 months;
Learning Standard: Demonstrate how things fit together or move in space with increasing accuracy.

Expectations:

Cognitive Skill: Reasoning & Problem Solving

Experience/Activity: Climbing on Mats

Age range: Birth to 8 months;
Learning Standard: Actively use the body to find out about the world.

Expectations:

Age range: 6 to 18 months;
Learning Standard: Use simple strategies to solve problems with support from a caregiver.

Expectations:

Age range: 16 to 36 months;
Learning Standard: Solve problems without having to try every possibility while avoiding solutions that clearly will not work.

Expectations:

Cognitive Skill: Social Identity

Experience/Activity: Dramatic Play with Dolls

Age range: Birth to 8 months;
Learning Standard: Show awareness of self and awareness of other people.

Expectations:

Age range: 6 to 18 months;
Learning Standard: Prefer familiar adults and recognize familiar actions and routines.

Expectations:

Age range: 16 to 36 months;
Learning Standard: Identify self and others as belonging to one or more groups by observable characteristics.

Expectations:

Cognitive Skill: Memory

Experience/Activity: Nature Walk

Age range: Birth to 8 months;
Learning Standard: Exhibit different responses to familiar and unfamiliar people, places, and things.

Expectations:

Age range: 6 to 18 months;
Learning Standard: Recall information over a period of time with contextual clues.

Expectations:

Age range: 16 to 36 months;
Learning Standard: Recall information over a longer period of time without contextual clues.

Expectations:

Cognitive Skill: Group and Categorize

Experience/Activity: Manipulating Farm Animal Figurines

Age range: Birth to 8 months;
Learning Standard: Notice difference between familiar and unfamiliar people, places, and things.

Expectations:

Age range: 6 to 18 months;
Learning Standard: Match two objects that are the same and select similar objects from a group.

Expectations:

Age range: 16 to 36 months;
Learning Standard: Sort objects into two or more groups by their properties and uses.

Expectations: