Knowledge Construction for Mariah

Gender: Female

Females at this age group develop fine motor skills first compared to males, so she will probably be better at this than her male counterparts. Females connect better when there is face to face social interaction, so make sure when I work with her to sit across from her, and that I give the chance for talking about the lesson despite it being mostly hands on

Age: 7

How To Sew a Button

Sources of Misconceptions

Undergeneralization: The way I’m demonstrating how to sew a button is the only way to sew a button

Overgeneralization: All buttons look the same, sewing on buttons is the same for all buttons, and we don't need to sew on buttons that why we have glue

Correlation Features

Buttons usually have 2 or 4 holes in them

Buttons are usually connected by sewing

Buttons are usually sewn a certain way

Buttons are usually put on fabric

Buttons are usually round

Defining features

All buttons have holes to sew them onto things

All sewn buttons use some type of thread to connect them to another object

Examples

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Examples of sewn buttons

Square Buttons

Buttons without holes on the tops

Buttons sewn on in an interesting way

Examples of not buttons

Snaps

Sequins