Constructivism is an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that learning is the result of "mental construction." In other words, students learn by fitting new information together with what they already know. Constructivists believe that learning is affected by the context in which an idea is taught as well as by students' beliefs and attitudes.
I once introduced a science lesson to my first grade class in which they had to take the information they had already researched on the eight planets of the Solar System and utilized it to place the planets in order away from the sun.
The students took the information that they had to "construct" their responses. The planets that they knew were the hottest were located closest to the sun ( their heat source) and the cooler planets were located further away from the sun. The students used models of the planets to construct a small-scale model of the Solar System.
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