Languages: English

Focuses on the ways in which adolescents develop more complex and sophisticated types of thinking and reasoning, and explains how teens learn.

Shows how adolescents endeavor to adopt adult roles at the same time they face the challenge of discovering their identity and integrating a set of values, beliefs, attitudes, and aspirations.

Follows three teens from diverse backgrounds and demonstrates how physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development are interconnected. The lesson also highlights the role that friends and family play in this development.

Explores the subject of “at-risk” teens and their resiliency. Drug abuse, delinquency, and teen pregnancy are among the topics discussed.

Illustrates how children’s experiences with puzzles, building blocks, and other toys help facilitate their cognitive development.

Introduces students to research design, observational studies, and surveys, and shows how researchers establish relationships between the variables.

Explores nature and nurture in development, DNA, genes acting in combination, and the effect that the environment can have on genetic expression.

Follows an expectant family through the prenatal process to the live birth of their child. Students learn about the trimesters of pregnancy and the risk factors that influence conception and delivery of a healthy baby.

Illustrates how three families cope with infertility, in vitro fertilization, adoption, and surrogate motherhood.

Includes discussion by experts of fine and gross motor development and the importance of nutrition and breast milk during the first two years.