The Early Years: Recording Sensory Words

by: Peggy Ashbrook

From children’s viewpoints, what they experience in the world is what the world is like—for everyone."What do others experience with their senses when they are in the same situation?” is a question that young children can explore by collecting data as they use a “feely box,” or take a “sensory walk.”

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 12/1/2007Stock # sc07_045_04_18Volume 045Issue 04

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