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Teenage Growth and Development: 15 17
As a teen approaches adulthood, a sense of autonomy has replaced some of the feelings of insecurity associated with physical development. This article looks at some of these new developments and provides parents with tips on how to...
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Teenage Growth and Development: 11 14
During the ages of 11 to 14, children begin a sequence of changes that produces significant emotional and physical changes. This article outlines some of those changes and how parents can support these developments.
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Story md.com: Infant and Newborn Development
When will my baby take his first step or say her first word? During their first year, babies start to develop skills they will use for the rest of their lives. The normal growth of babies can be broken down into the following areas:...
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Growth Disorders
Everyone grows and matures differently. A growth disorder, however, means that a kid is either growing a lot slower or a lot faster than other kids the same age.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Development and Aging of Endocrine System
Find out about the structure and function of the human edocrine system, and how it develops and changes with age.
PBS
Nova: Eighteen Ways to Make a Baby
Companion website to a NOVA broadcast of the same name, Eighteen Ways documents the world of assisted reproduction. Find information on in vitro fertilization, the challenges of infertility, human cloning, advances in micro-manipulation,...
Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Disparities in Wealth and Development
This collection of four learning modules looks at issues related to the unequal distribution of wealth and economic development. Examines how this is measured and presents student video assignments on this topic, followed by a discussion...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Human Population
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How quickly is the human population growing? If we look at worldwide human population growth from 10,000 BCE through to today, our growth looks like exponential...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Fetus Growth and Development
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers major events in the growth and development of the fetus.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Development From Birth to Adulthood
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers milestones in growth and development from birth to adulthood.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Urban Growth?
How were cities formed? This article explains the formation of cities starting from the neolithic revolution to current times. It addresses such topics as urbanization, suburban sprawl, and urban growth models.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Birth, Growth, and Aging: Self Check Quiz
Try these five multiple-choice questions about birth, growth, and aging. Each question has a clickable hint prompt as well as a self-checking feature.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Cooperative Extension: Publications: Adolescent Growth and Development
During adolescence, teens begin to change physically, cognitively, and psychosocially in preparation for adulthood. Comprehensive article, aimed primarily at an adult readership, describes how adolescents develop.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Endocrine System
Read and watch a series of videos on how our bodies regulate mood, growth, and development with complex chemicals.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Westward Expansion: Economic Development
In the late nineteenth century, the West developed into a modern agricultural machine- at the expense of farmers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Development
How does an organism go from a single cell to something as complex as a frog, fly, or human being? Learn the basic principles of development.
Library of Congress
Loc: Rome Reborn: Humanism
Access scans of manuscripts belonging to the Vatican Library that were instrumental to the growth and development of humanism in Renaissance Italy.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Amazing Fetal Growth
In this activity you will: graph data of human fetal growth and describe the rate of human fetal growth.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: City & Town
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: California: What Are the Life Processes in Humans?
Johnny is a crab fisherman. He believes crabs are a lot like humans. Listen to his explanation as to why he believes this.
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Suny Cortland: Erik Erikson's 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development
A chart summarizing the stages of psychosocial growth researched and determined by psychologist Erik Erikson. The elements of this study span all of human life from conception through the twilight years over 65.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850
A collection of eight primary resources--historical documents, literary texts, visual images, maps--illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction and teacher...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Cities & Towns, American Beginnings: 1492 1690
Four accounts of the visits to and growth of colonial cities in Spanish, British, and French New World settlements that demonstrate why certain communities developed successfully.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Growing and Graphing
Students visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure the heights of older students using large building blocks as a non-standard unit of measure. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in...