The impact of instructional resources on children's learning achievement in selected pre-schools in Nairobi North District, Nairobi Province in Kenya

Abstract

Children acquire most of the knowledge, concepts and skills through their senses as they interact with the environment. As children grow and their perception organs of sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch mature, their perception abilities increase tremendously. It is therefore important for parents and teachers to provide children with materials that they can see, hear, touch, smell and taste in order to ensure that they learn more about the world around them. When children are exposed to concrete experiences of the world around them, they develop images in their brains, which help to improve their memory. These images are referred to as schemas by Piaget (1954).