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o Let children know they are liked and appreciated
o Acknowledge. Respect, and validate children’s expression of emotion
o Design activities that require social interaction
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Cognitive
o Give children adequate time to explore and experiment with manipulative before
starting directed work
o Design experiences where children explore and experience their environment to
identify spatial relationships
o Ask and answer questions
o Understand their accomplishments

Provocations to Start
We are providing in this section some raw materials, key inventions and important innovators! Read
about them and generate ideas for provocative activities and subtopics for your monthly planning.
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The oldowan-tool and stone tools
The ability to make and use tools dates back millions of years in our family tree. The dawn of
stone tools dates back some 2.6 million years to Gona in Ethiopia. Known as the Oldowan,
these include not just fist-sized hunks of rock for pounding, but also the first known
manufacture of stone tools — sharp flakes created by knapping, or striking a hard stone against
quartz, obsidian, flint or any other rock whose flakes can
hold an edge.

Now scientists are using stone tools as

windows to help examine how the brains of the human
family tree developed through time. Tools are the products