Questions Your Project Will Address

Your project should have a title and begin with an introduction about child development. Include information about your efforts as well. The focal portion of your work will be a time line, life map or chart which uses pictures and words to show how a child develops from birth to 5 years.

• Use at least one picture to show a developmental skill or behavior for that particular category
• Discuss at least 2 skills per area of development (4 areas) for a particular age

• Summarize what happens during that particular year in the life of a child
• Discuss what caregivers can do to make sure the child develops to his or her potential.

The final portion of your project will be a discussion about the general warning signs a child may exhibit which could be an indication that the child is not progressing as he or she should.

Finally, you will share your work with a small group of classmates.

• All work (including your draft work) is to be handed in
• Give your work a title
• Write an introduction
• Information about child development in general
• Your work and effort
• Areas of Development
• Physical Development--How children move
• Social and Emotional Development--How children interact with others and how they feel
• Verbal Development--How children communicate
• Cognitive or Intellectual Development--How children think and solve problems

• Age Categories

• 0-4 months
• 5-8 months
• 8-12 months
• 1-2 years
• 2-3 years
• 3-5 years

• Minimally 2 skills or behaviors per age category in each area of development
• One (1) picture per age category
• Summary at the end of each year of development skills which also includes ways in which adults can interact with a child at that particular age to support their development, feelings, security and learning.
• Discussion of general developmental warning signs a parent should be aware of for each year.
• Bibliography: minimal requirements�2 internet sites and 1 other source.

SHARING: This project will take the place of your final exam for this course. To receive credit for your work you will participate in a sharing activity during the final exam period in June.

1. A mother, father, aunt, uncle of a child�when I've been, where I am, where I'm headed in terms of the development of your child. Your work could include diary entries, pictures of your child. You might consider putting it in a book format.
2. A nervous parent who wants to understand how his/her new child will develop.
3. The parent of a 2 year old that isn't speaking yet.
4. The parent of a child who crawls backward.
5. The parent of an aggressive 3-year old.
6. A father who doesn't have as much contact with his child as he would like�but that time that he does have, he wants to make sure every minute counts.
7. You are the parent of a child in 3^rd grade and the school has told you your child is disabled. "How come I didn't see this before" you ask�so you go back and look at the development and what you missed.