American Psychological Association
Developing Adolescents
Why to young people act the way they do? Scholars investigate the stages of adolescent development incorporating high school psychology techniques. Using research from the American Psychological Association, they uncover the five areas...
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Child Development: Normal Stages of Human Development: Birth to Five Years
This resource provides a table with information on human physical, emotional, and social development from birth to age five.
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Lego Foundation: The Role of Play in Children's Development
This article reviews research that has been conducted in relation to the five types of play, namely physical play, play with objects, symbolic/semiotic play, pretend play, and games with rules.
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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Ways to Help Kids Develop Healthy Habits
A study by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation showed parents have significant potential to influence their children's behavior. Help your children learn to make healthier food choices and engage in regular physical...
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: Passing Healthy Habits on to Your Children
Teach your children how to live healthy when they are young. This helps them avoid making unhealthy choices and developing lifelong bad habits. This article offers examples of ways for parents to positively influence their children's...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Longer Recess, Stronger Child Development
With an hour-long recess, elementary schools can help children develop through increased creative play, authentic SEL, and adequate physical regulation. This article explains the benefit of active play.
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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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Children of Recent Immigrants: Nat'l & Regional Trends
An analysis, published in December 2004, of recent national and regional trends regarding children of new immigrants. Explains the barriers that these children face regarding their academic, social, and physical development. Essential...
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Early Learning Services: Challenge and Risk in Children's Play
Risky play can be defined as a thrilling and exciting activity that involves a risk of physical injury, and play that provides opportunities for challenge, testing limits, exploring boundaries and learning about injury risk. This article...
Children's Discovery Museum
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Ice Exploration
Provides fun ideas for exploring how to transform ice using shapes, light, and color.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Quiz
Test your children's knowledge of nutrition and healthy eating, in this quiz from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Tips for Grown Ups
Learn tips to foster healthy behavior in children, in this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Background Information
Teach children about nutrition with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Kids: Fetch Fone: Just a Minute Digital Game
Children will learn measurement and the measureable attributes for time in this interactive game from FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman. Ruff sometimes needs his assistant to do silly things. They have one minute to do things like spin around in...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pre School Pe Lesson Ideas: Bowling
Introduce young children to bowling and the arm movements associated with this sport. This lesson plan allows students to create variation of bowling by setting up pins in unique arrangements and through participating in small groups.
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Bowl a Rama
Introduce children to bowling in this gym-class activity. Young students practice rolling a ball with partners and then practice rolling a ball toward specific targets.
NASA
Nasa: Aerial Photography: The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon
An animated adventure story, developed by NASA, that helps children understand earth science concepts by using satellite photography and other types of aerial photographs to identify physical features on the surface of the earth. Teaches...
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Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Spot Jumping
Young children practice jumpting and hopping through "Spot jumping," a game that requires them to listen to an instructor's directions and perform specific hopping tasks. This website includes ideas for homework related to the activity,...
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center
Fas: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Read about a 1996 study on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Learn about how FAS is caused and detected, and how this disease can affect one's physical and cognitive development. Included, are recommendations for preventing FAS through...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Runaway Teaching Guide [Pdf]
In Runaway, a novel by Becky Citra, a boy must make some difficult decisions about whether to help another boy that he has seen steal but who is also being physically abused. The story is set in the 1830s in Upper Canada. This teacher's...
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center
And the Beat Goes On
In this article, the author talks about her adopted son, John, who has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Read about the struggles she has experienced in raising him and learn about the problems John has overcome, despite his physical and...
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Childdrama: Creative Drama Lesson Plans
Many lesson plans with ideas for teachers and students, sorted by age and by type! Wonderful for thematic approaches.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Wake Up World
[Free Registration/Login Required] Explore the lives of children from different countries around the world through the exciting photo stories. Particularly good is Wake up World.