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Picture books as a source of knowledge for young children’s learning about science Children enter school with many isolated facts and misconceptions. What they are missing is a viable conceptual framework to link some of their isolated concepts together and … Continued

A recent CBC article about a parent and a child rewarding and fun experience as a research subject at the Language and Learning Lab. Check it out!

Peter Rabbit and his sisters live in a hole—a hole in which they sleep in beds and drink chamomile tea.  Cute, right? But such anthropomorphizing can have a surprising influence on how youngsters learn about animals… Listen to the rest … Continued