How to Take Care of Your Child

How to Take Care of Your Child: Physical, Intellectual, Social and Emotional Development Unit 5: Safety (Mid Term Project) 50 Points Total Now that you have been studying the development of a child for a few months now, we need to check your comprehension of the material to see what you have learned so far! For this project you will become Child Development Specialists and work with a partner to create a pamphlet on a specific topic related to Child Development. This brochure should look very professional and be creative enough to catch the eye of a parent sitting in a doctor’s office or at a daycare center. You may choose from one of the topics listed below:

 Feeding

o Bottle vs. Breast Feeding

o Baby Food

o Nutritional Meals and Snacks

 Safety

o Car Seat Information

o Home Safety

o Child Abuse

 Clothing

o Types of Clothing

o Clothing Safety

o Disposable vs. Cloth Diapers

 Health

o Common Childhood Illnesses

o Immunizations

o Doctor Check Ups  Education

o Toys for Children

o Reading to Your Children

o Suggested Books or Authors

o Games for Children

 Sleep

o Bedtime—Sleep Patterns

o Crib Safety

o Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

 Social/Emotional

o Temper Tantrums

o How Children Play

o Making Friends

Idea topics are only suggestions. You might decide on another area you are interested in and want to research. If so, check with Mrs. Brennan to make sure the topic is appropriate for this project.

Remember:

 Your brochure needs to look professional enough to be used in a doctor’s office or day care center.

 You will need to identify THREE SOURCES you used in your research. Cite these sources on the back cover of your brochure

 You will also need to make a short presentation of your information to the class.

 Remember you are the Child Development Expert so you should NOT just read from your pamphlet, but instead you are educating us on your topic.

o Tell us about things you did not know before you did this project.

o Be Ready for Questions from the Audience!

Child Development Brochure--Mid Term Project Rubric

Excellent Still Working Poor Content Through and complete Did not contain all Important facts are Information. Information is information essential to omitted. Majority of 15 points accurate, relevant and current. subject area. information came from Main ideas clear and easy to Information is not textbook. Shows little 5 for Research follow. Three sources clearly current or up-to-date. research used in 5 for Main Ideas sited Needed to do more preparing for 5 for Sources research to support presentation. No sources concepts. Only 1-2 cited. sources cited. Organization Follows logical sequence. Displays attempt to Poorly organized. Demonstrates time spent in organize information. Brochure is just full of 10 Points class getting organized. Lack of organization text with no flow what Brochure has a nice flow leads to confusion. so ever. Clearly shows a when read. lack of time spent on organization. Creativity & Information presented in a Attempts to present Displays very little Originality unique manner. Pictures used information in a unique creativity. No pictures are appropriate. Presentation manner. Does not added to brochure. 10 Points involves audience and keeps involve audience in any Members read from their attention. ways. Pictures may not brochure. be relevant. Teamwork & Contributed ideas. Took Relied on others for Did not contribute ideas. Cooperation equal responsibility for ideas. Only contributed Did not contribute to product development and partially to entire product development. 10 Points presentation. Used time project. Worked okay Lack of motivation and wisely in class. Worked well together, but some cooperation. Time with partner. problems. Time could clearly not spent wisely have been used better. Presentation to Class Both members clearly ready Struggled with No presentation given for presentation. Acted like preparation for or clearly not ready for 5 Points experts and did not read from presentation. Read some it. Just read from pamphlet. Could answer of pamphlet. Needed pamphlet. Did not have audience questions help from Instructor on any answers to audience questions. questions.