Michele Molinelli
Piaget’s Theory: Outline
Goals: To become familiar with Piaget’s Cognitive Theory through outline.
Materials: To create the outline, you must have access to the internet, Inspiration 8.0 and your text
book.
Instruction: First you must look over the web links that I have provided for you on the WebQuest. After
thoroughly reading the links, you will then create an outline of Piaget’s Cognitive Theory using
Inspiration 8.0. You will outline each of his 4 stages by finding pictures, examples of each theory. For
Example: For the Preoperational Stage, you will find a picture of a child between the ages of 2 and 7.
Then you will find a picture of a child pretending or playing “make believe”. You will then create a link
between the two pictures and explain why these are connected. You must do this for each of the 4
theories and must have at least 2 examples of each theory, not including the picture of the subject’s age.
Ruberic:
CATEGORY Exemplary Proficient Developing
Arrangement of Main concept easily Main concept easily Main concept not
Concepts identified; subconcepts identified; most clearly identified;
branch appropriately subconcepts branch from subconcepts don’t
from main idea main idea. consistently branch
from main idea.
Links and Linking Linking lines connect Most linking lines Linking lines not
Lines related terms/point in connect properly; most always pointing in
correct direction; linking words accurately correct direction;
linking words describe the relationship linking words don’t
accurately describe between concepts; most clarify relationships
relationship between hyperlinks effectively between concepts;
concepts; hyperlinks used. hyperlinks don’t
effectively used function or fail to
enhance the topic.
Graphics Graphics used Graphics used Graphics used
appropriately; greatly appropriately most of the inappropriately and
enhance the topic and time; most graphics excessively; graphics
aid in comprehension; selected enhance the poorly selected and
are clear, crisp and well topic, are of good don’t enhance the topic;
situated on the page. quality, and are situated some graphics are
in logical places on the blurry and ill-placed.
page.
Content Reflects essential Reflects most of the Contains extraneous
information; is logically essential information; is information; is not
arranged; concepts generally logically logically arranged;
succinctly presented; no arranged; concepts contains numerous
misspellings or presented without too spelling and
grammatical errors many excess words; grammatical errors.
fewer than three
misspellings or
grammatical errors.
Text Easy to read/ Most text is easy to read; Font too small to read
appropriately sized; no uses no more than four easily; more than four
more than three different fonts; amount different fonts used; text
different fonts; amount of text generally fits amount is excessive for
of text is appropriate intended audience. intended audience.
for intended audience;
boldface used for
emphasis.
Design Clean design; high Design is fairly clean, Cluttered design; low in
visual appeal; four or with a few exceptions; visual appeal; requires a
fewer symbol shapes; diagram has visual lot of scrolling to view
fits page without a lot appeal; four or fewer entire diagram; choice
of scrolling; color used symbol shapes; fits page of colors lacks visual
effectively for well; uses color appeal and impedes
emphasis. effectively most of time. comprehension.