Curated OER
Boxes & Blocks: Tunnel Vision
Students paint, create, and crawl through their own tunnel. In this early childhood visual arts instructional activity, students will develop gross motor skills and engage in activities that promote physical exercise as they create and...
Curated OER
Balls & Hoops: Obstacle-Course Olympics
Students discover their playground is transformed into a fun, challenging action spot. In this early childhood physical education lesson, students are encouraged use large-motor skills as they make their way through an age-appropriate...
Curated OER
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Sunny Science
Students develop problem-solving, observation, and critical-thinking skills. In this early childhood lesson, students explore the topic of the sun as they notice shadows and light.
Curated OER
When I Was A Baby....
Students engage in book-making and sharing activities that increase their awareness about their own development from baby to child in order to develop language and social/emotional skills. In this development lesson, students select an...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Higher Education: Infancy
Click from here to lists of links on infancy, including physical, cognitive, social, and language development.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur's Cafe
Want to eat some healthy snacks? Try some favorite recipes, in this activity from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
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 Tips for Kids
Help kids learn about nutrition and healthy eating, with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ernie's Dinosaur Day Care
"Help Ernie keep his dinosaur friends healthy and happy while learning about life science by making sure they are eating the right foods, getting exercise, staying clean, and getting enough rest."
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: On the Ball: Targeting an Action
Explore how the brain infers the position of a moving target. Conduct an experiment using a "look-ahead" window to target a moving object.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nutrition Background Information
Teach children about nutrition with this guide from Arthur: "D.W. the Picky Eater."
PBS
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...
Other
Dr. Green: Adolescents and Sleep
This article presents information about the needs of adolescents for plenty of sleep each night.
EL Education
El Education: Adolescence by Adolescents
This "field guide" was created by 7th and 8th grade students in Vergennes, Vermont, as part of a Learning expedition called Adolescent Odyssey and was meant to be a "user's manual" to students' changing bodies. Eighty students did...
University of Missouri
Um: Infant and Toddler Basics: Development During the First Three Years
This article describes typical social and physical development for infants and toddlers.
PBS
Pbs: Host a Family Olympics
Design and build a track with obstacles you must go over, under, around or through. Participate in a non-competive event with a variety of games that develop gross motor skills.
Other
Nurture Is Not the Same as Environment
Excerpt from book by Judith Harris which argues that parents do not have as much influence as peers in child development.
Leaf Group
How to Adult: Stages of Development in Adolescents
Learn about the social, cognitive, and physical development of humans during adolescence.