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Students review child abuse, safety precautions, and participate in various activities that teach these concepts. They discover how to provide safety for children in their care and make a list of safety precautions they should follow when caring for children.
Students explore marketing strategies while producing a hand-sewn puppet. They obtain information about child care and safety as well as basic hand sewing techniques.
Students explore, analyze and study how to develop developmental appropriate practice activities for learning experiences/activities/centers. They assess several chapters, work on key vocabulary terms and take several test along the way.
Students examine and discuss the behaviors of children from two months to four years old. While watching a PowerPoint presentation, they complete a worksheet and identify the behaviors. To end the lesson, they discuss the reasons for the differences in behavior.
Students brainstorm a list of the characteristics needed by a caregiver. After reading a story, they complete a worksheet discussing the characters and how they offered different types of guidance. To end the instructional activity, they discuss the use of negative and positive methods for guiding others.
In this activity, child care apprentices prepare granola bars to serve to preschoolers. A recipe and lab evaluation sheet are included, but the actual procedure is vague. It could be used in a cooking class or as a career exploration exercise.
Calculating your monthy expences in relation to your monthly salary is called budgeting. Kids are given a series of bills such as child care, mortgage, and groceries which they will calculate to determine how much money they need to succeed as a grown up. They then determine how a monthly salary is, and research which jobs or occupations will help them pay the bills.
Students explore world geography by participating in a child care activity. In this child sponsor lesson, students discuss the devastating lifestyles forced upon underprivileged children overseas and what can be done to help them. Students raise funds for the underprivileged and write letters to the boys and girls.
Students discuss how the U.S. educational system is similar and different to their native country's educational system. They chart the different educational levels and why parental involvment is so important. They generate a list of ways they can become involved with their child's education and report back to class.
Students identify characteristics of a quality caregiver. They practice positive guidance techniques.