Conservation Tasks
Children in the preoperational stage don’t realize that properties like volume and mass stay constant when items are only rearranged or reshaped. Tasks like those outlined here are used to test children’s understanding of the concept of conservation.
Children in the preoperational stage don’t realize that properties like volume and mass stay constant when items are only rearranged or reshaped. Tasks like those outlined here are used to test children’s understanding of the concept of conservation.