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Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary Alice Lee Williams Brown Examining and challenging existing frameworksTeaching overly factual content to young students is misguided: it is developmentally inappropriate, and ignores what we know about how children naturally learn. We can and should view all children as thinking beings, creating ideal environments for them to make sense of the world while being very careful to protect their inherent love of learning. This book teaches a concept based curriculum in a way that respects the developmental stages of