Given are responses of 7-8 years old children after they have observed an experiment done by the teacher, in which water in a bowl is heated and it has evaporated:
"Water has disappeared.”
“The bowl has absorbed the water.”
“The fire drank the water."
“God drank the water."
What do these responses tell us about children and their thinking?

Options

A. Children have alternate ideas about evaporation
B. Children's responses are illogical
C. Children's thinking is incorrect
D. Children cannot make a good observation

Answer

D

Explanation

The learning situations needs to include a variety where children get the opportunities ensuring each Child.s participation to observe, express, discuss, questions, critically think, improvise, analyse etc. In this question the children cannot make a good observation. In a good observation the question is based on scientific method, but here the question is only a hypothetical. So the appropriate answer is (4).