This course is designed so at the end of this 16-week course you will know about keeping children and adults safe and healthy in early childhood education settings.
Identify regulations, standards, policies, and procedures related to health, safety, and nutrition in early childhood settings
Describe strategies used to promote health, safety, and nutrition of children and adults in early childhood settings.
Discussions
Health and safety checklist
Menu
Health and safety quiz
Web resource file
Inclusion essay
Introduction to laws, regulations, standards, policies, procedures, and best practices for curriculum related to health, safety, and nutrition in early childhood settings. Includes prevention strategies, nutrition, and meal planning for various ages and planning educational experiences integrated into everyday planning and program development. The key components that ensure physical health, mental health and safety for both children and staff will be identified along with the importance of collaboration with families and health professionals.
This is a zero textbook cost (ZTC) course. We will be using a free open educational resource (OER) textbook called Safety, Health, and Nutrition in Early Childhood. You can access the text in Google Doc or pdf format. I encourage you to download the book to the computer or device that you’ll be using for your schoolwork to avoid long wait times if you have a slow internet connection. An APA format citation for the text is listed below.
Paris, J. (2018). Safety, health, and nutrition in early childhood settings. College of the Canyons.
Please make sure you have access to our course text no later than end of week 1 of the course to be sure you have what you need to fully participate. Let me know if you need help or have questions!