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Catalogue Number: 520156
ISBN Number: 1-55740-528-X
Producer: Magna Systems
Producers: O. Ryan, Kathleen
Directors: Poglitsch, Mike
Producing Agencies: Magna Systems
Subject: Early Childhood Education, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2008
Running Time: 21:42
Physical Growth and Development: Middle Childhood
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This title is a part of the series Middle Childhood SeriesCatalogue Number: 520156
ISBN Number: 1-55740-528-X
Producer: Magna Systems
Producers: O. Ryan, Kathleen
Directors: Poglitsch, Mike
Producing Agencies: Magna Systems
Subject: Early Childhood Education, Health and Medicine, Social Sciences
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2008
Running Time: 21:42
Between ages 6 and 12 children's bodies grow and mature in significant ways. They gain body awareness and develop new gross and find motor skills. This is also a pivotal stage where injury, illness, and the increase of childhood obesity are common.
This detailed, well-organized program presents educator insights, pertinent vocabulary, statistics, and classroom strategies for fostering healthy physical development.
Learn:
- Ways to encourage healthy physical development.
- Gross and fine motor milestones.
- How technology affects physical growth.
- Why childhood obesity and asthma are on the rise.
- Why accidental injuries are of serious concern at this stage.
- The importance of nutrition and the proper amount of sleep.
- Physical challenges that some children have.