Subjects: Life Science

Illustrates how children’s experiences with puzzles, building blocks, and other toys help facilitate their cognitive development.
Program Topic: The Play Years: Cognitive Development.

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. Program Topic: The Play Years: Psychosocial Development.

Shows how nutrition and genetics play an important role in the development of children. This lesson also explores biological disorders such as ADD and AD/HD. Program Topic: The School Years: Biosocial Development.

Discusses concrete operational thought, using complex language and moral reasoning. Further, it considers the value of bilingual education, ESL programs, and ways of learning more than one language. Program Topic: The School Years: Cognitive Development.

Illustrates the social development of children on two fronts: adult-child relationships that teach basic social skills, and peer relationships that teach cooperation, competition, and intimacy. Program Topic: The School Years: Psychosocial Development.

Examines the physical changes that take place during puberty. The lesson explores the impact of nutrition, physical appearance, and social pressure. Program Topic: Adolescence: Biosocial Development.

Focuses on the ways in which adolescents develop more complex and sophisticated types of thinking and reasoning. It also explains how teens learn in school and how education of adolescents differs from that of younger children. Program Topic: Adolescence: Cognitive Development.

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. Program Topic: Adolescence: Psychosocial Development.

Focuses on the physical changes of early adulthood, ages 18 to 35. The lesson explores the health risks posed by eating disorders, violence, and risk-taking behaviors. Program Topic: Early Adulthood: Biosocial Development.

Explores cognitive development in early adulthood and illustrates how young adults are making decisions that may affect the rest of their lives. It also discusses moral reasoning skills and how to apply them to difficult moral issues. Program Topic: Early Adulthood: Cognitive Development.