Keyave is sitting on a chair, and in front are multi-colored panels on the left side of the table. One by one, he randomly unstacks the panels and puts them on the table. Keyave starts to build a tower by placing one panel flat on the table without its color. He then encloses the down board with four other panels on the side and closes with the fifth at the top. The child starts the process again, but the last top panel serves as the floor or flat panel for this new cube. While unstacking the third panel for the second cube, the child finds a half panel and throws it in a container in the front of the table. Keyave repeats the process for three cubes but is distracted before closing the fourth cube. While holding two panels, he rubs them against his chest and stomach as he looks toward his right side.
Without time, the child places the top panel to complete the fourth cube. Keyave can unstack one or more panels from the pile without looking. His attention is now on the rising tower in terms of height. The boy does not put the top cube panel for the fifth cube and continues to build the sixth. The child is not distracted by someone walking past him towards the left side. Keyave keeps looking towards his right shoulder, and before he closes the top of the sixth cube, a teacher joins.
The teacher draws a chair and sits on the left side of Keyave. He says, “that is really big,” and looks away from the tower (Colorado Department of Education 00:02:19-00:02:21). Keyave bubbles some words that cannot be understood. He continues to speak inaudible words for some time before the teacher interrupts. The teacher asks, “Keyave, what are you making?” and the child says, “it is a tower” (Colorado Department of Education 00:02:33-00:02:48). The boy is not distracted by the teacher’s presence and keeps stacking more panels up. Indeed, he only looks at the teacher once when responding to his question. Keyave is also not bothered by another child who approaches and picks panels from the container on the table.
The teacher moves on and starts a conversation with another child at the same table. The teacher is no longer concentrating on what Keyave is doing anymore. He is now talking to the child about something she likes eating and tastes like strawberries. As Keyave creates the seventh cube up the tower, Keyave notices the building is about to fall off and supports it using his left hand. Keyave cannot continue to support the building, so he withdraws his support. He uses both hands, the left to pick the panel and the right to stack it in the building.
The child now opts to stack the panels on the side of the tower. Keyave adds a few panels on the third and fourth cubes, but while stacking one on the first cube, he pushes the building to collapse. The teacher notices immediately, asks, and answers, “What happened? It all fell down” (Colorado Department of Education 00:03:18-00:03:20). Keyave, with shock, watches how his tower scatters to the ground. He is still holding two of the unstack boards he was to use to add to the building. The teacher immediately bends down towards where the panels had fallen.
Works Cited
“Keyave Building a Tower.” YouTube, uploaded by Colorado Department of Education, 2021. Web.