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- 9th - 11th
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Students study the developmental processes students go through from an infant to age six. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students investigate the concept of homology. They are particularly interested in finding information about developmental homology. Students design a new animal correcting obvious mistakes on a worksheet provided by the teacher. They conduct classroom discussion about the drawings and other information. Full Review »
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- 12th - Higher Ed
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Students discover the theories behind child development and examine the works of various psychologists. They complete study guides on various topics, including developmental theories, growth development, and primary theorists. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students explore what it means to "Construct Appropriate Curriculum" so that their preschool can be developmentally appropriate. They participate in some music activities as well as play "sound bingo". These music and movement activities help the children in the preschool class feel comfortable as well as teach them needed motor and listening skills. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students determine which activities and teacher behaviors are developmentally appropriate activities. They examine what are developmentally appropriate activities and how can we incorporate these ideas into a child care setting. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students study Developmentally Appropriate Practices. DAP is introduced through a lecture that is developmentally inappropriate, followed by activities that teach the same information in a developmentally appropriate manner. Through this method, they understand what DAP is and experience it. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students in a teacher education program use a jigsaw method to identify the six areas of language arts to be taught in an early childhood classroom. They describe their vision of a literacy rich environment and practices uses a KWL chart and cooperative learning techniques. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to developmentally appropriate practices. Individually, they discuss what the purposes are of the DAPs and identify them out of a variety of examples. To end the lesson, they take a short quiz to review and discuss how to impletment these practices into their classroom. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students review examples of timelines and discuss how timelines are used to show developmental sequence. In groups, they review a timeline of a frog's life. Then they choose a different, but creative, method of presenting the same information to the rest of the class. Then they make timelines of their own lives. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students explore the steps of protein synthesis in zebrafish. They view video clips to identify the parts of a zebrafish and observe them as they sequence the developmental stages. In groups they identify the muscles and how proteins are formed. Full Review »

