Enduring Understandings:
1. Explain the best way to learn about children.
2. Summarize how children learn and develop important skills.
3. Determine why observation is important in the study of child development
4. Describe the areas of responsibilities for parents.
5. Summarize the qualities that contribute to building a strong family.
6. Describe the different family structures.
7. Discuss the trends affecting families.
8. List the basic categories of children's needs.
9. Identify the three parenting styles.
10. Summarize effective ways to guide children's behavior.
11. Outline what occurs during each of the three stages of prenatal development.
12. Summarize the hazards that alcohol and other drugs pose to prenatal development.
13. Assess why environmental hazards must be avoided during pregnancy.
14. Identify early signs of pregnancy.
15. Explain the importance of proper nutrition during pregnancy.
16. Describe why parents need to develop a budget.
17. Identify ways expectant parents can prepare for the birth of their child.
18. Compare and contrast the options for the delivery of a baby.
19. Describe the progression of labor.
20. List the factors that can contribute to a premature birth.
21. Describe a newborn's appearance immediately after birth.
22. Identify the exams and procedures given to a newborn in the first few days.
23. Summarize the physical and emotional needs of the mother.
24. Relate the milestones of growth and development during a baby’s first year
25. Point out the working memory of the brain and how it works
26. Support methods for handling and feeding an infant
27. Recommend the skills to meet an infant’s physical needs
28. Relate the importance of attachment and loving care
29. Compare and contrast the different temperaments
30. Evaluate how children learn behavior
31. Summarize infants’ emotional and social development
32. Relate Jean Piaget’s stages of learning
33. Recommend developmentally appropriate toys
34. Point out the process of learning language
35. Distinguish the difference between small and large motor skills
36. Evaluate care of the one to three year old including nutrition, hygiene, sleep and toilet training
37. Summarize general patterns of emotional and social development in the one to three year olds
38. Appraise the importance of a positive self-concept and ways it can be nurtured
39. Relate how play develops
40. Recommend general guidance techniques and how to promote sharing
41. Distinguish methods of learning and how children develop an understanding of concepts
42. Critique Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences
43. Recommend ways to encourage children to learn
44. Infer how children develop speech
45. Identify categories of disabilities
46. Identify four major types of maltreatment
47. Summarize common reasons behind child abuse and maltreatment
48. Explain what can be done to prevent child abuse
