Task 1
Video One:
Video: “Observing and measuring the weather”
Case: 53
The students are between seven and eight years old. They are in the second grade and
there are twenty students in the classroom. The students used quite a bit of new
language in the video therefore I will be focusing on the developmental stage of
Cognitive. Based on the children’s age they are in the concrete operational stage as
stated by Piaget. The students are beginning to show logical thought. They also are
more organized about their way of thinking have reasoning for why things are the way
they are. In the video the students were assigned to groups and given different jobs.
One job was to record the temperature it was outside. One of the children noticed that
the temperature was reading lower on the thermometer that is kept outside from the one
that they were holding in their hands. The teacher asked the student some open-ended
questions about why that could be. The response was that the thermometer outside was
out there a lot longer than the one that was taken outside so it had more time to read
accurately. The learning theory that I found most pronounces was Bandura’s Social
Learning Theory. It emphasized the importance of observing, modeling and imitating.
The teacher followed modeled this learning theory by allowing children to see how to
check the temperatures and then by having them do it themselves. She also scaffolded
the learning by building on the knowledge they already had about the weather and
introducing new information. The new information being the tools and how they are
