Subjects: Teacher Resources

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.

Shows how nutrition and genetics play an important role in the development of children. It also explores biological disorders such as ADD and AD/HD.

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.

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.

Explores how babies learn about their world through their senses, by touching, feeling, hearing, and babbling.

Includes discussions on temperament, social referencing and attachment and how these factors shape the emotions and personalities of young children.