Child Studies COMPLETE UNIT: Growth & Development

In the Stage 5 Australian/NSW curriculum, Child Studies explores the broad range of social, environmental, genetic and cultural factors that influence prenatal development and a child’s sense of wellbeing and belonging between 0 and 8 years of age. The Growth and Development unit within the Child Studies subject has students developing their understanding of the growth and developmental milestones that children are expected to progress through and the characteristics associated with each stage. The range of influences on growth and development are also investigated along with a variety of strategies and support networks which may assist parents to monitor and encourage their child.

This is a complete unit of work and includes:

• a Teaching & Learning Program outlining the outcomes students aim to achieve, teaching and learning activities matched to the student workbook and including all website links and YouTube video links used, resources needed as well as space for teacher registration
• Student Workbook which provides all the learning materials identified within the teaching program
• An informative PowerPoint for the Timeline Task within the workbook/program which is provided in PPT and PDF format
• Differentiated Extension Tasks for students who are more advanced in the subject (could also be used as a homework tasks)
• Assessment Task for life skills or support students
• Assessment Task for mainstream students to provide the teacher with a summative mark and evaluation of student learning at the end of the unit
• An optional differentiation for the assessment task for out-of-home care or foster students
• Assessment Task Register so teachers know which students have been given the assessment task and who was away/need to catch up

*The Teaching & Learning Program, Assessment Tasks and Assessment Task Register are provided in an editable MS Word/Google Docs format

*The Student Workbook, Differentiated Task and Differentiated Assessment Option is provided in PDF format

These resources are provided in a zipped folder. To access them, you will need to unzip the folder once it has been downloaded to your computer.