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Waterson, Robert A.; Haas, Mary E. – Social Education, 2011
The tragedy of 9/11 is perhaps the most significant event so far in the 21st century. Ten years later, the vast majority of elementary school students have no personal connection with the original events, yet all live in a world that has been and continues to be affected by 9/11. How can teachers introduce young students to the events of that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, United States History, Terrorism, Air Transportation
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Harner, Lorraine – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
In order to gain information on children's understanding of two different language forms (verb tense and adverbials "before" and "after") which can refer to past or future events, sentences containing either past tense, future tense, "before," or "after" were presented with sets of sequential pictures to 150 children from three to seven years old.…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Age Differences, Comprehension, Early Childhood Education
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Siegler, Robert S.; Richards, D. Dean – Developmental Psychology, 1979
The rule assessment approach was used to examine five-, eight-, eleven-, and twenty-year-olds' concepts of time, speed, and distance. (CM)
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Decision Making