Includes discussions on temperament, social referencing and attachment and how these factors shape the emotions and personalities of young children.
Grade levels: Senior High (10-12)
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Off To A Good Start
Focuses on a day in the life of three children age 2 and under, and the negotiation of developmental stages.
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Fatherhood
Illustrates the evolving role of the father and how fathers can affect their children’s development through play, reading, and games.
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Playing and Growing
Focuses on the development of children ages two to five. Newly refined motor skills and child endangerment and neglect are discussed.
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Playing and Learning
Illustrates how children’s experiences with puzzles, building blocks, and other toys help facilitate their cognitive development.
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Dollar$ and Sense – Personal Finance for the 21st Century
Dollar$ & Sense: Personal Finance for the 21st Century is an exciting instructional package containing twenty-six 30-minute lessons on 4 DVDs that will improve the money management skills of students. Dollar$ & Sense teaches students how to manage their money effectively, and strengthens your distance learning curriculum by offering a topic that is in high demand. With the number of personal bankruptcies now exceeding one million each year, and many students leaving college with enormously high credit card balances, Dollar$ & Sense meets a critical need in today’s society.
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Child Development: Stepping Stones – 2-DVD Set
Child Development: Stepping Stones has been designed to appeal to a wide variety of students, and in particular, to provide students preparing for careers in child development, early childhood education, social work, and related fields with a comprehensive understanding of development. The twenty-six 30-minute DVD lessons cover a wide variety of topics affecting the developing child, give students the opportunity to observe children, and feature interviews with leading child development experts and medical professionals.
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The Developing Person
Explores major theories such as psychoanalytic theory, learning theory, behaviorism, and cognitive theory. It also explores the life-span perspective, which considers that development is a lifelong process.
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Active Galaxies
The discussion of galaxies continues in this lesson by focusing on a special group of galaxies with very energetic cores called active galaxies. Different types of active galaxies are introduced, from Seyfert galaxies and blazars to quasars.
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Cosmology
Some of the most profound questions are asked and discussed in the complex subject of cosmology. What shape is the universe? How did it begin? How will it end? Evidence is presented that supports the big bang theory, and the exciting notion of dark energy is introduced.