Connect/Disconnect

The essential strategies children use to try out ideas and consolidate understandings as they investigate the world is to study how materials can be linked and their relationship to one another. They do this by putting things together and taking them a part, connecting, disconnecting, scattering, assembling and disassembling

- Adapted from: Children’s Lively Minds: Schema Theory made Visible, Deb Curtis and Nadia Jabonetta, Redleaf Press 2019

Here is a collection of items that can help support children exploring connecting and disconnecting , linking, and attaching.  

Photo by Gabriela Juri from Burst