The idea that one needs to do an experiment—a controlled perturbation of a single variable—to assign cause and effect is deeply embedded in traditional thinking about the way scientific ...

Students review cause and effect and will practice identifying causes. Then they will listen to the read aloud, Why do I Grow? and look for cause and effect relationships in the text.

The study shows that young children who come up with explanations while learning are able to connect new ideas with prior cause-and-effect knowledge.