Physical Development Middle Childhood 710 years

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Physical DevelopmentMiddle Childhood7-10 years

• ECE 313 Fall 04

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Primary Years

• Discussion
• How have children changed physically during the
  primary years?
• What are they able to do well now that they were
  just learning before physically?
• Be able to determine whether physical milestones
  are normal development or abnormal development.

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Health

• What major health problems affect children
  physically?
• What is the leading health problem in young
  children?
• What is the fasting growing health problem in
  young children? Why?
• What does poverty have to do with health issues
  in children?

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Health

• How does health effect schooling?
• What can we do as teachers to ensure children are
  healthy?

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Injury and Violence

• What is the leading cause of injury in an
  elementary school environment?
• Is violence a factor in childrens growth and
  development? How and why?
• Resilient children

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Motor development

• Brain-motor connections
• Dynamic systems theory- motor, cognition and
  behavior are linked.

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Play in primary

• Role play scenarios
• Board meeting
• Teachers, parents, administrators, school board
• Discussions of taking recess out of school.
• Some of you will be for it some against.
• Your goals is to convince others for or against.

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Why is play important?

• Types
• Functional Play
• Organization and role assignments
• Turntaking
• Realism
• Rough and tumble
• Pretend Play
• Games with rules
• Teasing
• Rituals

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Threats to play

• Television
• School Policy

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Physical Challenges

• Should children with special physical needs be
  included in physical activity? Why? How?
• ADHD/ADD-
• Behavior vs learning disorders
• How can we accommodate ADHD in our classrooms?

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MAJOR PAPERS

• Questions?
• Dates
• 11/16
• 11/23
• 11/30
• 12/7
• 12/14

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EXAM I

• Next week-
• Spend first part of class on infant cognitive
  development.
• Second part on exam
• Do not need scantron
• What questions do you have from the review?