Piaget Constructive Curriculum

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After farming, students will attempt inter-disciplinary questions (Fig 36). It follows Piaget Constructive Curriculum that “builds on children’s current knowledge and matches their appropriate developmental stage, and challenges them so that through the process of accommodation, they continue to make progress ”.
Through mind-map (Fig 37), students independently consolidate urban-farming learning through “fun, interesting and motivating approach to learning ” that eases memory of urban-farming course to raise awareness.
Observation booklet (Fig 38, 39) requires students to apply Science to justify certain phenomena witnessed during farming. Through Socratic discussion, “it enhances learning ” and simultaneously help students “organize their

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