CDEC: Exam 5 Study Guide
Layering of instruments and/or voices creates:
texture.
A good place to begin a discussion about others in the child's world is:
the child's most immediate environment.
100 percent natural means that:
the product is nutritionally good for you and doesn't contain preservatives.
Beat and accent have to do with:
the rhythmic pulse.
One of the first social learnings young children have is to learn:
their own name.
One of the best ways children have to express themselves is:
through dramatic play.
Adults can provide infants and toddlers music experiences:
throughout the day.
To encourage rich and varied mathematical experiences in the block center, you need:
to carefully plan the appropriate equipment.
The purpose of a field trip is:
to provide children with firsthand experiences.
The key to variety in lesson planning is:
cross-curricular planning.
Creative movement art activities include:
dance and art.
In the elementary classroom, to help the teacher to manage creative movement:
define expectations.
When reading with infants and toddlers:
allow freedom and choice.
For children with special needs, movement activities can:
allow them to participate at their own level of ability.
A personal celebration is:
an experience worth emphasizing.
Puppets offer the child:
an imaginative experience.
Dramatic play is:
an important medium for language development.
Long before children formally use numerals, they:
are aware of them through daily experiences.
Cardinal numbers:
are the numbers one, two, three, and so on.
The beginning of dramatic play is visible in children:
as young as one year.
Some ways to promote inquiry-based learning in the early childhood classroom include:
ask open-ended questions and validate prior knowledge.
With regard to reducing the risk of obesity, the American Academy of Family Physicians suggest:
avoiding prepared and sugared foods when possible and providing ample fiber in the child's diet.
Creative dramatics is:
different from dramatic play.
Young children who are beginning to sort and classify can:
divide time in a binary way.
Pretend reading is also called:
emergent reading.
When a teacher introduces "marching music" instead of duple time, she is:
employing spiral teaching techniques and presenting just the initial basics.
Encouraging parents to place infants in different positions:
encourages attention to spatial relationships.
When parents use words to describe events or tasks in order, in mathematics learning, this is:
enhancing the child's sequential development.
In dramatic play activities, children with developmental delays often:
enjoy something that they are familiar with and get fatigued very easily.
Some main goals of the early childhood music program are:
exposure to a wide range of music, many opportunities to express feelings and emotions in music, and experience in playing simple instruments.
Temperate fruit includes:
fiber and pears.
The three general types of finger puppets are:
finger-leg, finger-cap, and finger-face.
A teacher can help a child's development of rhythm through:
focusing on the natural movements of the child.
Three music elements are:
form, syncopation and ostinato.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends:
four to six ounces of juice per day.
The most common methods of teaching a song are:
from recordings, whole-song, phrase-wise, combination of phrase-wise and whole-song.
Some good outdoor science activities include:
gardening, listening to sounds, cloud watching, and sky watching.
A starting point for learning about ecology is:
getting young children outdoors to touch and experience nature.
Creative drama:
goes beyond dramatic play in scope and intent.
A good substitute for sugar for young children is:
ground-up raisins.
You can maintain the young child's natural musical interest by choosing songs that:
have a natural appeal.
Movement activities for children with ADHD and behavioral issues need to:
have clear rules and expectations.
Having pets in the classroom:
helps children learn to appreciate the functional physical characteristics of animals.
Using rhythm instruments:
helps children learn to listen for a pattern of sounds in music.
Through dance investigations:
historical events can be understood.
In teaching peace, one of the most important tools we can provide children is:
how to use words instead of actions to express emotions.
In planning movement activities for children with developmental delays, you should:
include exercise videos or tapes that are motivating for the children and plan to have a role model engage in the activity for the children to watch.
Some of the 10 thematic strands of social studies in the National Standards for Social Studies are:
individual development and identity, culture, and global connections.
When teaching young children about shapes and form:
introduce one new shape at a time.
Puppets are used most successfully when teachers:
introduce them slowly to the class.
Inquiry-based learning is a term often used when discussing:
investigating to gather information.
A puppet's character:
is a constant.
For children with visual impairments, dramatic play:
is a natural activity.
Being able to pick up the third object from a series:
is an example of the ordinal number understanding.
Rote counting:
is counting without true meaning.
Incorporating the subject of ecology into the early childhood curriculum:
is endorsed in the National Science Education Standards.
When children play together in the block corner, they:
learn to share and communicate.
The block center is an excellent place to learn the third social studies theme of:
learning about people, places, and environments.
Children's books for preschoolers include:
lift the flap, pop-ups and pull-tab books.
In inquiry-based learning, the teacher encourages children to:
look closely and notice details.
A reason that peace is so difficult to teach is that:
many adults don't understand the meaning of peace.
A societal need for mathematics is:
mathematics for cultural literacy.
A series of musical tones falling into a recognizable pattern is:
melody.
Young children all have:
music potential.
In order to classify, children:
must be able to observe objects for likenesses and differences.
Movement activities for children with visual impairments:
need to involve lots of encouragement for independent movement.
Learning about oneself, about others, and how to act with others is often accomplished by:
none of the above.
Louise Nevelson was:
none of the above.
An ABC book on wild animals is:
not a good ABC book for young children.
In music activities, young children should:
not be expected to meet performance goals.
During gross movement experiences for a child with special needs, it is important to:
not do too much for the child.
When working with dramatic play activities for children with special needs, be careful to:
not make too many rules.
Most food additives are:
not proven bad for you.
When planning dramatic play activities for children with ADHD, involve:
novelty in your planning as much as possible.
Learning experiences in the movement center fall under the three National Standards of Mathematics content standards of:
number and operation, measurement, and spatial sense.
Content standards in the National Standards of Mathematics for grades pre-K-12 are:
number and operation, patterns, functions and algebra, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, data analysis, statistics, and probability.
Historical concepts such as "long ago" or "far in the future" are:
often meaningless to young children.
All young children need:
opportunities to explore their world and experience math through their play.
Temporal awareness and number sense are:
part of the preschool curriculum.
Fruits that are a good source of fiber include:
pears and berries.
An example of a speech overgeneralization is:
"I thinked alot."
Suggestions made by the American Academy of Family Physicians on how to prevent childhood obesity include:
- avoiding prepared and sugared foods entirely. - providing ample fiber in the child's diet. - providing 40 percent or fewer calories from fat. - ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Romare Bearden:
- incorporated magazines such as Ebony and Life in his collages. - was a member of the New York-based African American artistic collective Spiral. - created a series of collages as his personal statement on civil rights. - ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Science provides young children:
- learning by doing. - transfer of learning. - the chance to exercise creative abilities. - ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Creative drama is:
- not unlike creative play in general. - an important part of the preschool curriculum. - similar to performing a play. - NONE OF THE ABOVE.
Children in upper-elementary grades can:
- sing in rounds. - learn musical notation. - enjoy listening experiences from a variety of music types. - ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Dramatic play is most appropriate for:
- the child who is music smart. - the child who is word smart. - the child who is person smart. - ALL LEARNING STYLES.
A 3-year-old:
- uses simple phrases and sentences. - enjoys looking at books. - points to ears, eyes, or nose when asked. - ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Products marked "juice" must contain:
100 percent juice.
A 2-year-old says about:
50 words.
Listening is:
active.
Older students can be introduced to the history of a period and to how art was a powerful and effective tool for making a social statement by using the work of:
Shahn and Bearden.
The best ABC books focus on:
a central idea or concept and the alphabet sequence.
With regard to geography, it is:
a natural subject.
Puppets are:
able to be used with felt boards.
You should not consider any field trips until you:
can anticipate any potential disruptive behavior.
Introducing multicultural music and dance:
can be done with children 9 to 11 years of age.
Plants in the classroom:
can be grown to be eaten and provide experiences in classification.
Puppets:
can be used to teach fingerplays.
Before a child is 3 years old, he or she often:
can count to 10 in proper order.
Dramatic play:
can help a teacher understand a child's emotional state.
Genetics and sugar:
cannot alone account for the huge increase in obesity rates over the past few decades.
Foods that are "100 percent organic" are:
certified by the USDA.
The fundamental truth in the movement curriculum is:
children all love to move.
The study of animals is:
consistent with the National Science Education Standards.
Some examples of dramatic play kits are:
plumber, firefighter, and doctor.
The age group that has play groups that are not well-organized and tend to change often is:
preschool and kindergarten.
Spiral teaching of music elements refers to:
presenting initial facts without concern for details.
Four skills involved in the development of language are:
reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
An example of an experience in ecology is:
recycling materials in the classroom.
The movement of sounds through time is:
rhythm
Activities for children in kindergarten include:
running, chasing, and hanging
The most important thing that is NOT in creative drama is:
script.
Excursions into the community:
should be an outgrowth of children's experiences.
Tropical fruits:
should be served in moderation.
The discovery center:
should have things for the children to do.
When you display the letters of the alphabet, place them:
so that children can see them.
For children with physical impairments:
space is a problem.
In working with an English as a Second Language learner:
start slowly.
In a child's learning of mathematics, parents need to:
use mathematical words and concepts every day.
Dynamics refers to:
volume or relative loudness or softness of the sound.
Children who are the most overweight:
watch the most television and eat too many high-fat snacks.
A strategy for focusing on a child's uniqueness is:
writing the child's name and saying it.
In formal science activities
younger children need clearly-defined steps.
