Final Analytic Paper

The Mystery Box

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CSUF
Professor Atagi
CAS 325A
04/28/2021

The Mystery Box

There are several aspects of child development such as physical, cognitive and social emotional development. These are some of the processes involved in the dynamic process of child growth. Using the mystery box positively impacts a child’s physical, cognitive and social emotional abilities by supporting their growth and developmental process. add more to the intro

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The mystery box is a significant product in contributing to children’s developmental process. The mystery box helps with reasoning as they engage in activities that require creativity, imagination and human social skills. Children use a ‘mystery box’ to explore items put there using their senses. It is from sense coordination that children can guess what is in the box. Either alone or with other children, children learn how to identify items by touching, feeling, and then recalling what the items are. This is influential in children’s development of their physical, cognitive and social emotional abilities. The mystery box is easy to use and involves simple activities from which children can identify differences, similarities of items, which is necessary for their growth. need more details

Age / Target Audience

The mystery box is an activity that can be adopted across all ages, but it is most suitable for children of twelve years and below. This is because young children use the mystery box to perform activities that coordinate between their senses (Yanuarto, 2017). At around this age children need to explore the world around them. A mystery box is simply designed and fitted with familiar items such that children can identify the items. This is however challenging to use for blind and deaf children within the same age bracket. Overall, it remains beneficial in contributing to child development of children aged twelve and below. need more details

Physical development

The mystery box significantly contributes to children’s physical development. Physical development is concerned with the children’s growth in size, stress, gross motor skills and fine motor skills (McClelland & Cameron, 2019). As children identify items in the mystery box, they grow in using their physical abilities such as grabbing, releasing, fastening and turning items using their hands. This involves muscle movements necessary for physical development. Thus, as children reach out for items in the mystery box, it impacts on their physical progress. need more details

Cognitive Development

The mystery box also contributes to a child’s cognitive development. This is a vital part of children’s development process. The mystery box allows children to process thoughts, pay attention to detail, grasp memories, link with the environment and become creative. The children can remember how items in the mystery box feel, how they look, how they smell, how they sound and taste. Also, they can memorize the purpose each item serves. As children undergo their sensorimotor, preoperational and concrete operational stages of development between birth and twelve years (Babakr et al., 2019). The mystery box is ideal in helping them maneuver through these stages of cognitive development. need more details

Socio-Emotional Development

The mystery box also plays a crucial role in a child’s social-emotional development. This is an important aspect in a child’s development process. As children grow, they acquire human attachments and learn human interactions (Mendelson et al., 2018). While using the mystery box, children take turns in identifying the items and as such, they learn how to share. Also, their recognition abilities vary and from these, they learn to appreciate differences from an early age. Consequently, this is translated to their interactions with other people in society. Thus, the mystery box helps children grow socially and emotionally.need more details

Relevant Developmental Theory

Various schools of thought are used to communicate children’s development but the cognitive developmental theory is the most ideal. This is a school of thought by Jean Piaget that states that people transition through several stages in acquisition of knowledge and making constructive reasoning. According to Piaget. Children move through four stages of mental development to acquire knowledge. Like scientists, children experiment, observe and learn about the world around them, consequently impacting their development. Thus, the cognitive developmental theory is relevant to using the mystery box to support children’s reasoning and development. say more about the theory and how it applies to product

Conclusion

Altogether, the mystery box is both a fun product and quite significant in child development. Using the mystery box, children can easily concentrate, remember and synthesize data. Children improve their abilities to recall, classify items, ask questions and conclude on matters. Society, especially caregivers should embrace the mystery box as a product in children’s development. say more in the conclusion

References

Babakr, Z. H., Mohamedamin, P., & Kakamad, K. (2019). Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental Theory: Critical Review. Education Quarterly Reviews, 2(3), 517-524. Fix
McClelland, M. M., & Cameron, C. E. (2019). Developing together: The role of executive function and motor skills in children’s early academic lives. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 46, 142-151.

Mendelsohn, A. L., Cates, C. B., Weisleder, A., Johnson, S. B., Seery, A. M., Canfield, C. F., … & Dreyer, B. P. (2018). Reading aloud, play, and social-emotional development. Paediatrics, 141(5). Fix
Yanuarto, W. N. (2017). Students’ Creativity in Geometry Course: How a Mystery Box Game Plays Important Role. Jurnal VARIDIKA, 29(1), 87-95.