The Piagetian Task

The two students I did the Piagetian tasks with were Nigel age 6 and Joey age 4. The setting of the tasks was at Nigel's house in his dining room on Saturday February 20th 2016. The two tasks performed were task number one and task number four off of the Piagetian tasks sheet handed to us in class. For task number one I took each child aside separately, but both children were shown an example of the picture held up for them to see the elephant right side up or standing straight up on its feet or upside down in which the elephant was on its head. We discussed that the seeing it right side up means it's standing on its feet and seeing it upside down means it's standing on its head to avoid any confusion if a child didn’t know what that meant. Once I finished showing this example I set the picture of the cartoon coloring book elephant down between me and the child so that the child
Again I started with Nigel and we spent a little time to make sure the balls were the same size. When we finally agreed that the balls were the same Nigel watched as I rolled one into a snake which was very exciting for him because that's his favorite animal and he really wanted to play with it but I had to tell him not to touch it until after I asked my question. I then asked Nigel is there more playdough in the snake and pointed to the snake playdough, is there more playdough in the ball pointed to the ball, or do the snake and the ball have the same amount of playdough. Nigel first looked at both for about a second before telling me the snake was bigger. I then asked him why and he then sat up on his knees on his seat and leaned over and he and put one hand at the beginning of the snake and one hand at the end to measure and then moved them to the ball which took up less space length wise and said that the snake is longer and that it is an anaconda because they're really big