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Making the Grade
Different Strokes for Different Ages

Grade-School Kids

Like nature

Identify with family

Worry about fairness

Get excited easily

Need frequent physical activity

 

Middle-School Kids

Understand ethics

Challenge rules

Think in the abstract

Become self-conscious

Need positive reinforcement

 

High-School Kids

Identify with peers

Question authority

Can interpret complex science

 

 

Illustration: Gary Hovland

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
September 2001, pages 18-21.
©2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 
     

 

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