Producers: Coast Learning Systems

Explores the role of the school in a child’s development, depicting the social transformation that begins when a boy in fifth grade meets a teacher who helps turn his school experience around.

Examines the physical changes that take place during puberty, and explores the impact of nutrition, physical appearance, and social pressure.

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.

Demonstrates how preschoolers learn to negotiate relationships with other children through play and physical interaction. It also explores the three predominant styles of parenting and the impact each has on children’s psychosocial development

Introduces four preschoolers, including fraternal twins. The level of gross and fine motor skills that children can achieve is discussed.

Examines how the media influence children, promoting a sedentary lifestyle with advertisements that promote poor nutritional choices. The issue of child neglect and its impact on development is also discussed.

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