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Scenario I
Jason is using play dough at the classroom art table. He flattens out a ball into a pancake. He puts two little flattened balls near the top for ‘eyes.’ Next, he rolls out a piece of play dough into a long thin strip, cuts it in half, puts one piece vertically between the eyes down the middle of the face, moving it around. “This is the nose,” he says, as he changes the shape of the nose a bit and then smiles. Next, he takes the other piece of the strip and puts it near the bottom of the circle, playing around with how it curves until it makes ‘a smiling mouth.’ When he’s finished, Jason starts over with another piece of play dough making another face, going through the same process — only this time, as he’s working on the play dough strip for the mouth, the ends curve down. After a careful look at it, maybe even a bit surprised, he excitedly announces that he’s made ‘a sad face’ and starts playing around with other ways the strip can curve and forms an upside down ‘V,’ which he decides will be an ‘angry’ face.
Next, Jason goes to the ...