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Exploring Dimensions



Explain all exercises briefly in chapter 4.1 Exploring dimensions. Make illustrations/ diagrams and mention vocabulary too.


Exploring Dimensions:
Exploring dimensions group come under the visual exercises.  As visual exercises is an important part of the sensorial development. In this group, exploring dimensions, the child learns how to discriminate between objects having similar shapes and colors but varying in length, width, height or thickness. 

Exercise 1: The cylinder blocks:
Materials
4 blocks each contain 10 cylinders with knobs, each cylinder fitting into its respective hole.
Block 1: The cylinders vary in two dimensions: The diameter increases from 1cm to 5.5cm
the height remains constant at 5.5cm.

 
 


Block 2: The cylinders vary in three dimensions: The diameter increases from 1c, to 5.5cm
the height increases from 1cm to 5.5cm.





Block 3: The cylinders vary in three dimensions: The diameter increases from 1cm to 5.5cm
the height decreases from 1cm to 5.5cm .

 

Block 4: The cylinders vary in one dimension: The diameter remains the same.
The height increases from 1cm to 5.5cm.





Exercise:
Ø  Take consent of a child.
Ø  The directress begins exercises with holding the knob of the first cylinder.
Ø  Remove and place it on the table without making any noise.
Ø  When she is done, she will select the largest and return it to its place it to its appropriate hole without making any noise.
Ø  After completing her presentation, she will ask children to do the exercise.
Ø  After doing block 1, then he should be presented with 2, 3 blocks.



Vocabulary:            
Block 1: Thick and Thin
Block 2: Large and Small
Block 3: No language because no dimension is isolated
Block 4: Tall and Short. The positives, comparatives, and superlatives.




Exercise 2: The Pink Tower:
 



 


Material:
Ten wooden cubes varying in sizes from 1 cubic centimeter to 1 cubic decimeter.
Exercise:
Ø  Select a mat and spread it on the floor.
Ø  Take the consent of the child.
Ø  If the directress is right handed, the child should stand on the left side of her.
Ø  Hold the largest cube and move it closer to other cubes and figure out the sizes of the cubes.
Ø  Place the biggest one on the mat and then look for the second biggest.
Ø  Place second biggest cube on the biggest one.
Ø  Compare and place all the remaining cubes in the same way.
Ø  Now, place both hands on the sides of the biggest cube and move slowly upward. The purpose of doing this to give the idea to child about the tower that gradually it becomes narrow.
 Vocabulary:
·         Cube
·         Large, small
·         Large, larger, largest.
·         Small, smaller, smallest.
 



Exercise Brown Stairs








Material:
-10 brown wooden prisms of the same length (20cm) but differing in height. They vary from 10cm x 10cm x 20cm to 1cm x 1cm x 20cm.
Exercise:
Ø  Select a mat and spread it on the floor.
Ø  Mix the prisms on the floor but make sure they are not touching each other.
Ø  Hold the largest prism and compare it with others and make sure that you are holding largest and thickest one.
Ø  Place it towards the far left side of the mat in such a way that square side of the prism is facing towards you.
Ø  Find the second thickest prism and compare it with other.
Ø  Bring it closer to the largest one and push it towards largest one and there must not be any space between these two.
Ø  Continue to arrange rest of the prisms.
Vocabulary:
·         Prism
·         Broad, narrow
·         Broad, broader, broadest
·         Narrow, narrower, narrowest.
Extension Exercise:
Pink tower and broad stairs (vertical):
Material:
Pink tower,  broad stairs and a mat.
Presentation:
Ø  Spread the mat on the floor.
Ø  Bring the broad stairs (prisms) to the work place.
Ø  Place the thickest prism on the mat with a rectangular side facing you.
Ø  Then, place second thickest prism on the first thickest prism.
Ø  Arrange all in the same way.
Ø  Then, take largest cube of pink tower and close it to the right square side of the thickest prism.
Ø  Place cube gently with both hands and make sure that it completely contact with the square face of the prism.
Ø  Take second cube and place it on the first cube in a way that it contacts exactly with the side of the second prism.
Ø  Continue to assemble the rest of the cubes in the same way.







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