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Learn about how children and adolescents grow, as well as challenges to healthy development. This is a great class for anyone who wants to work with children! This course focuses on the growth and development (physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and moral) of children from conception to age 5.
Prerequisite (classes you must take first): None
Grades: 9-12
Length of class: Semester
Credit: .5
Important Class Projects
Important Class Projects
Students will get the opportunity to care for a computerized "baby"! Students will be assigned a "baby" to carry around school during all of their classes and to take home. The computer "baby" will cry, need to be fed, changed, and held throughout the day and night.
Students also complete a research project on a child development theorist (see example below).
Who should take this class?
Who should take this class?
This course is valuable to anyone planning to care for children in the future (either as part of a career or as a future parent).
This class is also for you if you are interested in becoming a teacher, fine arts director, coach, counselor, or school administrator!
Other Info you should know
Other Info you should know
Students must be prepared for the responsibility of taking care of a computer "baby" (students will be charged a fee if there is damage).
This class must be taken with Education Exploration (each class is a semester long).
Example of Child Development Theorist Project
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