Child+Development+2012

Introduction/Overview Rationale Statement: Effective parenting is important in nurturing children to become healthy, caring, contributing citizens. Parenting involves meeting the basic physical, emotional, intellectual, and social needs of the child. This class is designed to help students examine roles, responsibilities, influences, practices, and support related to the parenting process.

Understanding stages of development is vital for guiding children to make informed decisions. Due to a need for highly qualified educators, careers in this area in are high demand. Human development knowledge is essential for individuals seeking a career in education, health, medical and human service professions, and many other careers involving working with children and youth.

Assignments 11.29.12 Erikson four square activity/time to work on assignments

11.28.12 Time to work on Erikson Assignments.

11.27.12 no class (no heat in school)

11.20.12 no class thanksgiving event

11.19.12 Erik Erikson Video and Notes on Stages 5-8 Assignment. 1.Interview an elder about their life (integrity vs. Despair) 2.Find a song that illustrates each stage of your life as it compares to Erikson's Stages of life. 3.Find one picture to show each outcome of the 8 stages of development. You will end up with 16 pictures.

11.16.12 Erik Erikson Video on Stage 1-4

11.15.12 Introduction to erik erikson. Time to finish brochures.

11.14.12 Finish Birth -1 Brochures.

11.13.12 Watch part 2 of "river's edge" Question and answer discussion. Finish birth-1 information disc.

11.9.12 Watched part 1 of "River's Edge" Story about natural consequences. 11.8.12 11.7.12 continue working on brochures.

11.6.12 create a brochure to highlight the baby birth- 1 year old. Include information about social, emotional, physical, and mental development. Identify toys that are good for this age range. Include some developmental milestones and items like stranger anxiety.

11.5.12 Work in groups of 2-3 to create case studies for each age range we have studied using kidshealth.org if they need a reminder. Then they should exchange the behavior case studies and write a solution to each based on the guideline principles for discipline.

11.2.12

11.1.12 Read Disciplining your child and complete the review sheet.

10.31.12 Child Development hands on activity (mummies) / Pinata Party. Watch video common Ground. Goal to identify different points of view and racism through the generations.

10.30.12 Direct instruction on Effective discipline. Cornell Notes on Keys to Effective Discipline part 1.

10.29.12 discussion of discipline and mutual respect. Watched video disciplining with out screaming and yelling.

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10.25.12 Made Gummy Worms Assignment: Participation

10.24.12

10.23.12

10.22.12 Learn about DNA and Genetric Traits. Match up chromosomes at this site. Then try out the chromosome activity here to learn more info at this website Watch the video to learn more [] Practice with the bunnies

Start of 2nd Qtr

End of first Qtr. 10.18.12 continue maslow's hierarchy (order) of needs. Reference material link

10.17.12 using your notes, identify 3 pictures that represent each level of maslow's hierarchy of needs. you may enter them here, print them out, or submit them in power point form.

10.15.12 Guest speaker : Youth Diabetes presentation: nutrition and pregnancy

10.12.12 Pinata Project

10.11.12 Pinata Project

10.10.12 Pinata Project

10.9.12 Pinata Project

10.8.12 No Class

10.5.12 Discussed importance of being involved in your children's activities

10.4.12 SD Mylife/Career Cruising Portal direct instruction/demo part 1

10.3.12 watched empathy belly video for project discussed schedules

10.2.12 Explained the empathy belly project. Each student has to wear it for 1/2 day or a full day for extra credit. more info: click

10.1.12 (sub) Roll Learning cubes to determine which type of birth defect you will learn about.

9.28.12 Direct instruction on pregnancy/prenatal

9.27.12 Introduce the "empathy belly", and "baby think it over. Hands on demonstrations.

9.26.12 Name Game, flash card vocabulary

9.25.12 Round Robin Learning. Station 1 video on prenatal development. Station 2 Prenatal vocabulary, station 3 pregnancy simulation software.

9.24.12 Watch eating for two, nutrition during pregnancy

9.20.12 No School- P/T conference

9.19.12 Watch the miracle of life. Identify and discuss how humans are biologically produced. link stages of pregnancy link

9.18.12 Watch Teen Pregnancy. Write a paper contrasting the differences of being a teen parent vs an adult parent.

9.17.12 using the tipi of thinking create questions for a child at each level. Determine good reasons to have a baby and poor reasons to have a baby. Watch the first section of "the miracle of life." take notes.

9.14.12 play a game and then analyze the highest level of cognitive thinking that it represents.

9.13.12 tipi of thinking. Draw the 6 levels of the tip of thinking. Label each level with an example of a game. 9.12.12 Activities for Kids: **Assignment :**

9.11.12 Quiz on Piaget's Stages. 4 section developmental example paper on Video: Watch me Grow. Played Hoky Poky

9.10.12 No class

9.7.12 Finish Rubric puzzle on Piaget's Stages. Complete some one elses puzzle. Watch video on piaget stages. Bonus: Try some experiements on Piagets Theories.

9.6.12 Discuss Piaget's Intellectual Development Stages. stages of intellectual development using the 9 square format xxxx
 * Assignment:** Create[[file:square puzzle.xlsx]]a square 9 piece puzzle matching terms and stages with ages. Create matching items for each stage.

9.5.12 **Assignment:** Notes on Piaget's stages of Development [] Video: Parenting Skills 20 min long

9.4.12 No Class( heat day)

9.3.12 No Class (holiday)

8.31.12 No class (Heat Day)

8.30.12 Assignment: Create two powerpoint slides with 3 pictures each to illustrate (show) types of emotional and social development. Print them off, submit hard copy. Example:

8.29.12 Emothional Development: Notes Assignment: Complete Emotional Development sheet "left handed writing" by Ms. H.

8.28.12 Physical activity (hopsotch) see handout.

8.27.12 Physical activity Notes, **Assigment:** Group activity (discussion of types of physical development), complete two activities on paper.

8.24.12 **Assignment:** Create a child development survival guide with the following sections: activities, types of development, fun foods, safety, helpful tips.

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8.21.12

8.20.12 Rules overview, Boundary activity