Educational Toys
ducational toys are toys made to entertain while promoting learning. They are not just ordinary toys. In fact, each educational toy was especially designed to enhance or promote specific skill, and encourage curiosity, creativity and discovery in children.
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In classroom settings, educational toys have become part of the modern educator’s curriculum and teaching technique. Samples of the toys you can find in classrooms are: board games, musical instruments, puppets, and puzzles.
The popularity of educational toys can be attributed to the idea about their impact on brain development. A recent study conducted by researchers from Stanford University, California, published in Nature Science, supported this thought, showing that skills learned early in life may trigger permanent changes in brain structure, and may bolster the brain areas used to make decision in later life.
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The researchers, headed by neurobiology expert Professor Eric Knudsen, used owls as a model to determine whether skills acquired at young aged could still be remembered at adult aged. From the experiment, Knudsen’s team determined that stimulating toys are all likely to shape a child’s brain for future tasks.
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Types of Educational Toys
Educational toys have a number of types and functions. Thus we offer you here an insight on the two major types of educational toys to help you find the right learning toy for your child.
- Curriculum-based toys are toys designed to enhance students’ knowledge on certain learning areas or subjects like history, science, math and arts. For children with interest in science, anatomy models, chemistry sets and science kits would be best to have. While for youngsters interested in math or need help with math, a selection of math toys such as math puzzles, electronic Math toys, and problem solving toys are available in the market.
- Cognitive-based toys are toys designed to help children think clearly and solve problems. They require children to evaluate a situation, make a decision and plan ahead, thereby, teaching youngsters to make analyse, decide and act on their own.
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