Ideas in this lesson are also related to concepts found in these Common Core State Standards: 1  CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.9-10.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
Differentiation typically refers to a developmental process when a skill becomes more sophisticated and broken into subsets.
Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence. It was first created by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896â1980). The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it.