Mr Hughes teaches a Year 2 class of six and seven year olds. He wants them to understand that the amount of sand stays the same when it is tipped into a container of a different shape. A colleague suggests he writes the rule on the board and asks the class to copy it down.
Using Piaget's ideas of readiness and active learning, explain how Mr Hughes should teach this lesson.
27 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 2.3 Application: The changing role of education, covering 2.3.1 Applying Piaget's ideas to education and 2.3.2 Applying learning theories to education. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.