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ECS 555 Child Development Including Health, Safety,
and Nutrition GCU
ECS 555 FULL COURSE
DISCUSSIONS GCU
ECS 555 TOPIC 1 DQ 1
When looking at the holistic approach of safety,
nutrition, fitness, and health, which of these areas is of most importance to
the early childhood teacher? Explain.
ECS 555 TOPIC 1 DQ 2
After reviewing the National Association for the Education
of Young Children (NAEYC) Standards, identify one standard of your choice.
Reflect upon that standard and how it improves the quality of safety,
nutrition, fitness, and health for early childhood. Then, describe how you will
implement the chosen standard within your classroom in order to improve safety,
nutrition, fitness, and health.
ECS 555 TOPIC 2 DQ 1
Educators sometimes need access to student’s medical
information when it relates to their performance and safety in school. Describe
how you plan to gather and keep medical information regarding your students.
What are some of the possible concerns in the gathering and storage of this
information? How will you prevent any issues from arising concerning this
process?
ECS 555 TOPIC 2 DQ 2
Why is it important for everyone to be aware of and
resist the desire to create stereotypes and make assumptions about people they
meet? Why is this especially important for teachers? How does 1 Samuel
16:7 show how God views outward appearances?
“For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the
outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7 English
Standard Version).
ECS 555 TOPIC 3 DQ 1
Being prepared for an emergency is important at all
ages. Identify an emergency policy needed for all children to learn and share
how preparation will vary from each different age group.
ECS 555 TOPIC 3 DQ 2
Identify and describe two safety activities that
K-grade 3 students could teach their families at home. Rationalize your
recommendations.
ECS 555 TOPIC 4 DQ 1
What are your personal thoughts on the use of
electronics by children in and out of the classroom? At what ages do you find
electronic use most appropriate? What advice would you give parents regarding
the appropriate amount of time for electronic use?
ECS 555 TOPIC 4 DQ 2
If you suspected that a student was not receiving
proper nutrition at home, what actions might you take? Be specific.
ECS 555 TOPIC 5 DQ 1
Reflect upon the saying “failing to plan is planning
to fail” in regards to effective lesson planning. Explain how an unprepared
teacher negatively affects a teacher’s instruction and his or her students.
ECS 555 TOPIC 5 DQ 2
Conduct research relating to differentiated
instruction. What does differentiated instruction mean? How can a teacher
incorporate this concept into their lesson planning? How do student’s benefit
from differentiation?
ECS 555 TOPIC 6 DQ 1
Discuss environmental factors that can affect the
mental health of early childhood students. Identify possible signs of mental health
issues and a recommended resource to share with families or other educators in
properly dealing with concerns.
ECS 555 TOPIC 6 DQ 2
In Leviticus 19:18 it states, “You shall not take
vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall
love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.” Discuss how this
passage relates to bullying and how you will incorporate it into your teaching.
ECS 555 FULL COURSE
ASSIGNMENTS GCU
ECS 555 TOPIC 1
DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONES: BIRTH TO KINDERGARTEN
Read the scenario below to inform the assignment:
You are working in an early childhood program at
your local daycare. One day you are approached by a mother who has a
6-month-old baby girl named Kaylee. The mother is concerned that she does not
know how and when her baby should be developing. She is seeking your advice
about developmental milestones that her child should experience from now until
entering kindergarten and what she can do to assist her baby in reaching these
milestones in the areas of nutrition, health, and safety.
Write a 750-1,000 word narrative informing the
mother the different developmental milestones, including brain development,
which her child should go through from ages 6 months to 5 years. Include
guidance on how she can promote development successfully, especially focusing
on the areas of nutrition, health, and safety.
In addition, include 3-5 resources for the mother
that depict both typical and atypical development and help to explain how
nutrition, health, and safety can promote healthy brain development, for future
reference.
While APA format is not required for the body of
this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and
references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.
ECS 555 TOPIC 2 CULTURE AND
ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS
As a teacher you will have many students and they
will all come with a different story. Environmental factors and health
care will look different in each one of the students. It is very
important to identify and address the diverse needs without stereotyping the
child.
Part 1: Class Profile Analysis
Analyze the “Class Profile,” paying specific
attention to environmental and cultural factors related to the following areas:
- Parental involvement
- Socioeconomic status
- English language learners
- Medical issues
- Ethnicity
In 500-750 words, summarize the strengths and needs
of the class in relation to the above factors and share how this data will
guide you in your lesson planning and communication and collaboration with
families.
Part 2: Lesson Plan Adaptation
Analyze the “Healthy Living Lesson Plan” and
consider how you could differentiate the lesson activity based on the
needs and strengths of the class depicted in the “Class Profile.” Complete the
“Healthy Living Lesson Plan” by including differentiation for the following groups
of students:
- English language learners
- Students with special needs
- Students with gifted abilities
- Specific needs depicted in the “Class Profile”
Below the “Healthy Living Lesson Plan,” describe in
250-500 words how you would differentiate the lesson activity for typical and
atypical development and explain your reasoning.
Submit your analysis and lesson plan adaption as one
submission.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An
abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.
ECS 555 TOPIC 3 HEALTH AND
SAFETY MINI-LESSONS
As part of the benchmark assignment for this course,
you will be organizing and designing an upcoming Wellness Fair for your
kindergarten class. To prepare for this Wellness Fair, you will develop four
mini-lessons in the areas of health, safety, nutrition, and fitness throughout
the course. In addition, you will research community organizations to be
represented in booths at the Wellness Fair that will provide your school
community with information related to health, safety, nutrition, and fitness.
For this assignment, use the “Mini-Lesson
Template” to design one health mini-lesson and one safety mini-lesson for
the event. Lesson topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Oral health
- Specific health issues
- Lead poisoning
- Allergies
- Accident prevention
- Fire/natural disaster safety
- Hygiene
- Hand-washing
- Emotional safety
Make sure each lesson is developmentally appropriate
and addresses strengths and needs of the students depicted within the “Class
Profile.”
In addition, select two community organizations to
host a booth at the Wellness Fair. One organization should support your health
mini-lesson and one should support your safety mini-lesson. In 250-500 words,
summarize the chosen organizations and why each should be featured at the
school community Wellness Fair.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An
abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.
ECS 555 TOPIC 4 NUTRITION
AND FITNESS MINI-LESSONS
As part of the benchmark assignment for this course,
you have been asked to organize and design an upcoming Wellness Fair for your
kindergarten class. To prepare for this Wellness Fair, you will develop four
mini-lessons in the areas of health, safety, nutrition, and fitness throughout
the course. In addition, you will research community organizations to be
represented in booths at the Wellness Fair that will provide your school
community with information related to health, safety, nutrition, and fitness.
For this assignment, use the “Mini-Lesson Template”
and design one nutrition mini-lesson and one fitness mini-lesson for the
event. Lesson topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Meal planning
- School garden
- Recycling
- Label reading
- Food safety
- Healthy choices
- Healthy lifestyle
- Muscle strength
- Being active
Make sure each lesson is developmentally appropriate
and addresses strengths and needs of the students depicted within the “Class
Profile.”
In addition, select two community organizations to
host a booth at the Wellness Fair. One organization should support
your nutrition mini-lesson and one should support your fitness
mini-lesson. In 250-500 words, summarize the chosen organizations and why each
should be featured at the school community Wellness Fair.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An
abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.
ECS 555 TOPIC 5 BENCHMARK –
WELLNESS FAIR
In this benchmark assignment, you will be planning a
Wellness Fair for the students and families of your kindergarten class. The
Wellness Fair will incorporate the mini-lesson plans you previously created in
this course. You will also create a digital invitation to the Wellness Fair.
Part 1: Mini-Lessons Rationale
In preparation for the Wellness Fair, review the
health, nutrition, safety, and fitness mini-lessons you designed throughout the
course.
In 250-500 words, write a rationale explaining your
instructional decisions for each wellness lesson. Make sure to include how
those decisions directly support the characteristics and needs of the “Class
Profile” students.
Part 2: Wellness Fair Event Plan
Health, safety, nutrition, and fitness are topics
you have been teaching to your kindergarten students through your mini-lessons;
however, it is also beneficial to educate the families on the same topics.
Therefore, your goal in this section is to design a wellness fair to educate
the families on these topics so they can support their children at home more
successfully.
In order for the fair to be effective, you will need
community support to assist in providing educational booths in the areas of
health, nutrition, safety, and fitness. For this part of the assignment, you
will create a 1,000-1,250 word plan outlining the wellness fair for your
students’ families, including how you will involve the community.
Include the following in your plan:
- Agenda: Outline the timing for each activity during the event
in a simple agenda format.
- Welcome: Briefly describe how you will introduce the event to
all participants.
- Opening Activity: Plan an opening activity for the families
and children that will explain the purpose of the wellness event with the
community and promote shared values and expectations in creating a
healthy, respectful, and challenging learning environment.
- Community Resource Booths: Outline four community resource
booths that will provide information on health, safety, nutrition, and
fitness (one booth per topic). Include a community resource you will
invite to represent the topic, 3-4 interesting and important statistics
relating to the booth’s topic and young children, and a 50-100 word description
of why that topic is important to the development of young children.
Briefly describe how each booth will address the needs of children in the
class both with and without exceptionalities, based on the “Class
Profile.”
- Closing Activity: Plan a closing activity for the families
and children that employs strategies and opportunities to ensure future
collaboration with families while pursuing the well-being of students in
the areas of health, nutrition, safety, and fitness.
- Rationale: Write a 250-500 word rationale explaining how the
Wellness Fair supports collaboration between faculty, students, families,
and the larger community. In addition, discuss why this collaboration is
vital to promoting children’s development and learning, including children
with exceptionalities.
Support your plan with 2-3 scholarly resources.
Part 3: Digital Wellness Fair Invitation
Create a digital invitation to promote the Wellness
Fair to families, colleagues, and the community as well as share information
about the growth of young children in the areas of health, safety, nutrition,
and fitness. The invitation should be concise, visually appealing for the
audience, encourage participation and collaboration, and include 2-3 resources
that support the content.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An
abstract is not required.
Submit all three parts as one submission. Parts 1
and 2 may be delivered as one Word document.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.
College of Education (COE) program competencies and
national standards assessed in the benchmark assignment:
COE 1.1
Create developmentally appropriate instruction that
addresses young children’s characteristics and needs including strengths,
interests, and needs that enable each student to advance and accelerate his or
her learning. [CEC 1.2; NAEYC 1a; InTASC 1(b); GCU Mission Critical 2]
COE1.3
Collaborate with students and colleagues to develop
shared values and expectations to create healthy, respectful, supportive, and
challenging learning environments for young children. [CEC 7.3; NAEYC 1c;
InTASC 3(c), 3(f)]
COE 1.6
Collaborate with students, colleagues, families, and
the larger community to plan for children’s development and learning using
data-based information. [CEC 7.1; NAEYC 2c; InTASC 1(a), 1(c), 2(f)]
COE 5.8
Collaborate with students, peers, families, and
community members using digital tools and resources to support student success
and innovation. [CEC 7.2; NAEYC 2c, 6c, 6d; InTASC 9(d), 10(d), 10(e), 10(g),
10(k); ISTE-T 3b]
COE 5.9
Use collaboration to promote the well-being of
individuals with exceptionalities across a wide range of settings and
collaborators. [CEC 7.3; NAEYC 2c, 6c; InTASC 10(j)]
ECS 555 TOPIC 6
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PRESENTATION
You have been asked to create a professional
development presentation for early childhood educators on the topics of mental
health and bullying.
Create a 15-20 slide presentation that includes a
title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.
Within your presentation include:
- A child’s social-emotional developmental milestones and
worldview for ages K-3.
- The effect of stress and the environment on the
social-emotional development of a child.
- At least 2-3 activity ideas to incorporate whole group social
skill lessons promoting positive peer interactions.
- At least 2-3 strategies for identifying bullying behavior
and/or mental health concerns in young children.
- At least 2-3 community resources for both families and
teachers concerning children’s social-emotional development.
Support your presentation with 3-5 scholarly
resources.
While APA format is not required for the body of
this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and
references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be
found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric
prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for
successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to
LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.
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