It's hard to escape the children's toy lesson without addressing the prevalence of Apps for Smart phones and tablets as the new toys for toddlers. Give it just a couple of years and this lesson will be obsolete as the students you'll be teaching grew up playing more with Apps than physical toys and...
What is the cheapest way to buy diapers? Do subscriptions to Amazon Prime or memberships to wholesale clubs really save you money on diapers? Why not do the math? This is a complex problem but easy enough to understand and develops student's problem solving skills.
This is an activity I came up with after reading the What do Babies Think Lesson previously shared on the website. I couldn't assign the experiment included in the lesson because my students didn't have access to children in that age range, but I did find a site where students could find their...
This amazing lesson is the Winner of our Child Development Lesson Plan Competition! The goal of this lesson is to explore bedtime issues/fears of children & how to respond to them. Students will also create a community service project called “Fear-Me-Not” characters to help children in abuse shelters feel more secure and safe during...
The idea for this lesson came from Alison Gopnik's work studying babies minds. “What’s it like to be a baby? It’s like being in love in Paris for the first time after you’ve had three double espressos" she says. This lesson is an introduction to scientific studies on human beings and aims to replicate...
In this lesson students will determine if they were or still are picky eaters. They will view a you tube video of the Arthur cartoon entitled "DW The Picky Eater" and fill out a graphic organizer while viewing. Following the video students discuss the information from the graphic organizer and brainstorm with...
I felt as if the children didn't truly understand the size of a premature baby until I presented them with the Preemie Caps project. Using the sewing machine students will make very basic stitches to make hats for premature babies that eventually get donated to a local Children's Hospital.
This project encourages students to write their own children's book using the STORYBIRD free website. They don't even have to be artistic as templates from a variety of artists are available for use. After they write their book they create a VOKI to encourage others to read it. VOKI is also...
This lesson focuses on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences. Students determine how they are smart and then learn more about the learning styles and how they apply to children. To make it fun, I will have the students participate in 6 different activities each illustrating various learning styles. Students must identify the...
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