Provide an example of how culturally embedded ideas, along with physical tools can help a developing child's understand their world.

For example, the Yu'pik people, who live in the Bering Sea (west of Alaska), have 99 different ways to describe ice. There are concepts describing wavy ice, shoreline broken ice, small cakes of ice, and thin ice overlapped like shingles (Block, 2007). These ideas and also physical tools; such as harpoons and nets, are introduced to the child by their parents or elders which helps him/her function in their immediate environment. Similarly, concepts like freedom of speech and managing money, together with real tools, like computers and the Internet, help us function in ours.