New Early Childhood Titles and Resources from Pearson

DEAR EDUCATOR,

At Pearson, we have an abiding belief in the importance of teachers and their power to illuminate the minds of young children and those who are learning to teach. In these current times of significant change in educating students who serve children and families, and in publishing, we remain committed to working with you, your students, and the field to provide effective resources.

Our new list of Early Childhood materials offers innovative solutions that ground understanding of development, early learning and effective practices in the most contemporary perspectives of the field. For example, Sue Bredekamp’s extensively revised Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education, Second Edition, is a worthwhile contribution to your students’ knowledge and skill base not only for its many intentional and effective strategies for working with young children, but also because it moves the field forward. In the revision of Sorte’s Nutrition, Health and Safety: Promoting Wellness, the authors present profiles of “Progressive Programs and Practices” that contemporary programs across the country have implemented to make programs safe, fight obesity and care for individual children’s health needs. You will find in all the materials here a persistent, intentional focus on application, underscored by research, from valued authors.

Inside this year’s catalog are some of the market-leading resources that you already trust, as well as some new ones. Many of these resources have been enhanced to take advantage of digital platforms. For example, if your students use the Pearson eText version of 8 new editions, available for 7 courses, they will find embedded videos they can link to directly from their screen. Along with content enhancements, these eTexts provide students with all the features you would expect to find in an eText—electronic note taking and highlighting, navigation and search. One last feature that we know your students will appreciate and value: significant saving over the purchase of a print book. Be sure to also check out our online courses, CourseConnect, to save you time and to engage your students.

Our latest titles and course solutions are presented here. For a complete listing of all course materials and to learn more about any products listed here go to www.pearsonhighered.com/earlychildhood

We look forward to our continuing partnership with you.

Sincerely,

Julie PetersSenior Acquisitions EditorJulie.Peters@pearson.com

Krista ClarkExecutive Marketing ManagerKrista.Clark@pearson.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction to Early Childhood Education

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

Health / Safety / Nutrition

Infants and Toddlers

Parent / Home-School Relations

Guidance

Observation

Administration / Mentoring

Student Teaching / Practicum

Language Development in Early Childhood Education

Creative Arts and Expression in Early Childhood

Social Studies in Early Childhood

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Introduction to Early Childhood Education

Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education Plus MyEducationLab with Video-Enhanced Pearson eText, 2/eBredekamp

ISBN: 9780133386356 • ©2014 • 576 pp.

Written by one of the foremost experts in the field, this essential text provides the building blocks for understanding effective practices in early childhood education with a solid framework for Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP), preparing and empowering students to become the type of teachers that enhance young children’s learning and development positively and effectively.

Birth to Age Eight. Early childhood educators join the profession and remain in the role because they believe that their work can and will make a difference in children’s lives and education. To prepare them, Sue Bredekamp has written the book that she wishes she had when she was learning about young children. By building on the basic framework of Developmentally Appropriate Practice, covered in an entire chapter, the text goes beyond it by weaving in three core themes: intentional teaching, challenging and interesting curriculum, and evidence-based, effective practices for a new generation of early childhood educators. The text covers the necessary content required in an introductory course, including unique chapters not typically found, such as one on DAP and one on effective teaching practices—plus four chapters focused on content areas. The chapter sequence is organized according to NAEYC’s guidelines for Developmentally Appropriate Practice, to which the author has expertly contributed for over 30 years. The overall organization provides a conceptual framework on which later learning can be built, one that is applicable across the diverse settings in which early education occurs—child care centers and homes, preschools, kindergarten, and primary grades.

New to this edition:

• Developmental trajectories • A completely revised Assessment chapter, with more on observation and recording tools• End-of-chapter review and application items, many involving children’s artifacts

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Introduction to Early Childhood Education

Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education Plus MyEducationLab with Video-Enhanced Pearson eText, 7/eMorrison

ISBN: 9780133400830 • ©2014 • 432 pp.

This best-selling practical, brief text with its applied approach is based on current research and thinking about how young children learn, and provides concrete examples for how best to teach children from birth to age eight.

Birth to Age Eight. George Morrison’s trademark friendly and accessible writing style is what sets this text apart from all others on the market. Not only is it a pleasure to read, but the streamlined presentation and only 13 chapters make it an excellent alternative to Morrison’s full edition (Early Childhood Education Today). User-friendly, contemporary, and comprehensive, this fundamental resource shows how to apply childhood theories directly to practice, offering concrete concepts and appropriate practices applicable to real classrooms and teaching young children in today’s educational world. Now with embedded videos in the Pearson eText, this edition brings early childhood settings right into the college course, showing students how children develop and learn (in chapters devoted to ages and grades) and how teachers implement evidence-based practices.

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The Whole Child: Developmental Education for the Early Years, 10/eWeissman / Hendrick

ISBN: 9780132853422 • ©2014 • 496 pp.

A classic in the field, this practical methods text provides a complete developmental approach to early childhood education giving teachers the specific skills they need to teach the whole child-—emotionally, socially, physically, creatively, and cognitively.

Written in a warm, engaging style, the authors present foundational information about the field and working with children from birth to age eight, as well as a strong rationale for teaching the whole child, focusing on the five developmental “selves” of children. The text’s developmental domain chapters begin with discussions of physical and emotional health, proposing that they are fundamental to the well-being of children. Discussions also place children in the context of contemporary family life and the multicultural world today. Throughout, the authors clearly provide practical guidelines, methods, and materials that address the entire individual, not just curriculum topics. Further, in this day and age of teaching mandates and standardized testing, the authors address how to meet school standards while remaining true to Developmentally Appropriate Practice. With an emphasis on emergent curriculum, intentional teaching, and the Reggio Emilia approach, students learn about “best practices” in a way that is accessible and encouraging to the novice teacher. The Whole Child is a sensible methods book that explains how to teach young children in ways that foster healthy development, emphasizing all aspects of the child and what he or she needs from the learning environment in order to thrive.

Introduction to Early Childhood Education

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Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 2/eBullard

ISBN: 9780132867542 • ©2014 • 504 pp.

This invaluable resource presents a balance of theory and application to help novices and practicing early childhood professionals understand why and how to design, arrange, and make changes to early childhood learning environments that help children achieve national and state standards through a play-based curriculum. Vivid contemporary photos of indoor and outdoor centers make reading this resource an enriching and aesthetically pleasing experience.

This new edition is a powerful resource that helps students learn the basic content and principles on environments and curriculum, and see environmental and curricular possibilities in practice–-developmental and learning theories, current research, curriculum standards and outcomes, children’s interests and their motivation to play, children’s diversity, assessment of learning, and evaluation of the environment. It also contains a wealth of practical ideas and tips, lists of materials, and engaging vignettes and examples from the author’s vast classroom experience.

This text enhances students’ understanding of curriculum including a new chapter on how curriculum is developed, and by teaching how to advocate and/or design a play-based curriculum, preparing them to use the latest research knowledge as they do so. Still organized by chapters on centers, this text helps pre-service and practicing teachers learn to create, maintain, and enrich indoor and outdoor learning environments to support children’s development from birth to age eight. This is a must-have book for any college course or program that wants its teachers to know how to intentionally set up engaging and appropriately challenging early childhood learning environments and to understand the evidence and reasons for why they’re doing it.

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

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Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

Meaningful Curriculum for Young Children Plus MyEducationLab with Video-Enhanced Pearson eText Moravcik / Nolte / Feeney

ISBN: 9780132862554 • ©2013 • 528 pp.

Designed to help students understand the content and processes involved in curriculum that has intellectual integrity and that celebrates young children, Meaningful Curriculum for Young Children is comprehensive, practical, and engaging to read. It is unique in that it combines a child-centered, student-friendly approach with a focus on meaningful subject area and field-tested content from the author’s lab school. The field-tested learning activities demonstrate intellectual integrity and sensitivity to children while providing practical resources as examples for planning high quality curriculum.

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Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum in ActionKostelnik / Rupiper / Soderman / Whiren

ISBN: 9780137058075 • ©2014 • 352 pp.

As a practical and highly visual overview of all the components necessary to be an effective early childhood teacher, this concise new text is perfect for community college courses and is keenly focused on application and skill-building, utilizing several areas of child development—aesthetic, affective, cognitive, language, physical, and social—as the basis for curriculum planning.

Neither a subject-based nor a materials-based curriculum, this applied text instead promotes several areas of child development and incorporates subject matter areas–art, math, literacy, and science–into the developmental domains. The authors present six activity types (exploratory play, guided discovery, problem-solving, discussions, demonstrations, and direct instruction) in every domain. Furthermore, they provide long-form lesson plans and short-form plans that illustrate these activity types in all of the curriculum chapters. Closely aligned to the current Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) guidelines, the text effectively prepares pre-service teachers for the demands of the classroom as well as for the Praxis II exam, if it is required in their state.

Promoting the teacher as an active participant in education is another important characteristic of the text, with a detailed discussion of the importance of being intentional in one’s teaching and what this looks like in a classroom environment. The authors support this ideology by explaining and showing how a teacher becomes more active—one ready to make continual judgments about what to plan, how to build on children’s interests and knowledge, and how to interact with children to scaffold their learning. Strongly methods-based in its approach, the text also imparts the “how to” of teaching, with a multitude of examples of what is appropriate to teach children ages three to six.

Curriculum in Early Childhood Education

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Health / Safety / Nutrition

Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness Plus MyEducationLab with Video-Enhanced Pearson eText, 2/eSorte / Daeschel / Amador

ISBN: 9780133388916 • ©2014 • 544 pp.

This practical text provides teachers of young children with a comprehensive understanding of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of children from birth through school age.This streamlined Second Edition offers an engaging, solid presentation of wellness concepts that prepare early childhood educators to implement healthful practices and teach young children ways to contribute to their own wellness. Through anecdotes, cases, and authentic examples, the authors use a storytelling approach that helps contextualize wellness concepts for readers. This approach and other meaningful pedagogical features promote critical thinking about professional situations, and offer a glimpse into the everyday classroom environment—diverse populations of young children in family child care, child care centers, preschools, and elementary school settings.

The Pearson eText for the Second Edition includes embedded videos in each chapter, plus other features such as notetaking, highlighting, portability, and affordability.

The recently revised student supplement MyEducationLab for Health, Safety, and Nutrition helps students to understand, see, and teach wellness to young children through the use of online videos, artifacts, and other resources corresponding to text content.

New to this edition:

• Streamlined presentation in only 16 chapters

• New Progressive Programs and Practices features highlighting inspiring wellness practices around the country

• Up-to-date nutritional guidelines, including MyPlate

• And many more contemporary updates listed online!

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Infants and Toddlers

Infant and Toddler Development and Responsive Program Planning Plus Video-Enhanced Pearson eText, 3/e Wittmer / Petersen

ISBN: 9780133388763 • ©2014 • 576 pp.

This comprehensive and applied textbook clearly describes and respects infant and toddler development through a relationship-based approach to early care and education. Covering not only development, curriculum, and program planning, but also guidance and professionalism, this text promotes a relationship-based model for understanding how infants and toddlers grow and learn in typical and atypical ways.

This new edition continues to emphasize the importance of families’ and teachers’ relationships and responsiveness in interactions with young children, the latest developmental research, an emphasis on child-centered planning, particularly strong coverage of infants and toddlers with special needs, and the effects of culture, families, and quality programs on infant-toddler development and interactions. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of why, according to the science of child development, certain practices support or hinder an infant’s or toddler’s optimal development—and how to provide responsive, joyful, meaningful, and lasting high-quality care.

The Third Edition is enhanced with:

• Embedded videos (in the Pearson eText only)

• New engaging, color photos and design in the Pearson eText

• New “Culture Close-Up” scenarios that create opportunities for group discussion

• All-new “Observation Invitations” to practice reflection and decision-making

• Many other valuable additions

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Parent / Home-School Relations

Parent-Child Relations: An Introduction to Parenting, 9/eBigner / Gerhardt

ISBN: 9780132853347 • ©2014 • 400 pp.

The user-friendly and research-based approach to this best-selling text provides the most comprehensive coverage on parent-child relations across the lifespan while balancing theory with clean prose, effective pedagogy, and useful strategies.

The Ninth Edition of Parent-Child Relations has undergone extensive updates and changes, most notably with the addition of Dr. Clara Gerhardt as co-author. Research and content updates to this edition increase the effectiveness and currency of the text. Key themes of the text are an emphasis on family systems theory and a systemic family development model to describe intergenerational family scenarios and lifespan challenges, as is the focus on the ecological, social, and cultural contexts in which parent-child relations occur. Some major parenting strategies are anchored by focusing on nurture and structure, and important discussions of ethnic diversity and family structures in the United States are explored. The Frequently Asked Questions provided allow students to see parenting concerns through the eyes of a parent or a therapist; the Parenting Reflections raise significant questions to promote critical thinking; and the Focus On feature further highlights important information and trends in the field.

For decades, this classic text has prepared countless teachers and practitioners by its proven and practical approach, utilizing family systems and systemic family development theory to explore how parent-child relations change across the lifespan in tandem with developmental changes occurring with children, adults, and the wider family system. The most comprehensive and current resource available to students as they prepare for working with parents and families, and for their roles as parents themselves, this best-selling resource carries on the essential message of its originator, Dr. Jerry Bigner, and will continue to nurture future family scholars and practitioners for years to come.

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50 Strategies for Communicating and Working with Diverse Families, 3/eGonzalez-Mena

ISBN: 9780133090277 • ©2014 • 176 pp.

This targeted text offers practical strategies for partnering with families to support, enhance, and maximize the quality of care and education of young children. It presents a plethora of ideas for creating the trust necessary for true collaboration between families and the early childhood professional, and shows the student how to develop useful programs that include all families and individuals.

50 Strategies for Communicating and Working with Diverse Families, 3/e presents practical strategies teachers can use to create a positive, family-centered approach to their classrooms. With a myriad of stories, examples, and vignettes throughout the text to help readers apply the information to real life, this text is based on the idea that a child cannot be separated from the context of the family and its influences, and when programs take a family-centered approach, everyone profits. It honors diversity and emphasizes how to make every child and family feel welcomed and respected. Key family communication issues are discussed in research-based, yet highly accessible prose. Useful strategies to facilitate communication and collaboration are presented in brief two- or three-page chapters. Many of the strategies in this book address ideas about how to create a climate of trust by communicating in a collaborative way. Teachers will love the 50 short chapters with information they can apply immediately. Practical and easy to use, the goal of the text is to create inclusive programs that respect and honor differences in families and individuals, keeping the welfare of the child at the forefront of all that is said and done.

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Guidance

Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Birth to Age Eight, 6/eFields / Meritt / Fields

ISBN: 9780132853323 • ©2014 • 432 pp.

One of the most respected texts in the field, Constructive Guidance and Discipline: Birth to Age Eight, 6/e, more clearly links guidance techniques to the causes of behavior than any other text on the market.

Continuing its quest to provide information about helping children become confident, caring, responsible, and productive people, the recommendations in the text about guidance approaches are based on the sound research of Jean Piaget, Alfred Adler, and Carl Roger. The authors emphasize understanding the uniqueness of each child, including how individual temperaments and experiences affect behavior. The book’s approach recommends treating the cause of behavior problems rather than just the symptoms to obtain lasting results, and continually presents clear discussions of child development and developmentally appropriate practices as they relate to the causes of children’s behavior. Providing a unified theory base for analyzing guidance and discipline, the text offers a consistent view of external versus internal motivation, explaining why rewards are as damaging as punishment, and why evaluative praise undermines children’s learning as well as their self-confidence. With a strong emphasis on developmental theory and constructivism, this new edition broadens coverage with new examples relevant to children birth through age eight. The text explains underlying causes for child behavior, weaves numerous preschool and primary classroom examples throughout, contains new Reflection questions to ponder and/or discuss, and includes extensive information on guiding children with special needs.

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Guiding Children’s Social and Emotional Development: A Reflective ApproachKatz

ISBN: 9780137070886 • ©2014 • 240 pp.

The accessible language and focus of this engaging new brief book includes readable research implications, scenarios/examples, and pedagogy that support an intentional, reflective approach to guiding children’s social and emotional development.

The author writes from her unique perspective as a practicing clinical child psychologist and daily provider at a high-quality early care and education center. She synthesizes and offers the best ideas from recent child development research and practice recommendations from the mental health field and model early childhood programs. Self-reflection is emphasized throughout, showing readers, as they build confidence, how to use the concepts and strategies in their own professional practice when working with young children. Every chapter introduces information that helps readers to better understand children’s developing emotions and behavior and works to challenge readers to tap into personal feelings, thoughts, and experiences. The text provides concise and practical overviews of the key theories and research on social and emotional development, clear examples illustrating children and teachers in early childhood settings using effective and not-so-effective guidance strategies, and the tools necessary for understanding and responding effectively to what has become known as “challenging behavior.”

As James Elicker, Ph.D. of Purdue University so eloquently states in the Foreword of this text, “…Katz helps us in insightful and practical ways to sharpen our capacity to empathetically understand each child as a unique individual who is striving to have a sense of power in her own life and to be connected in loving and meaningful ways with others. Is there a more important goal in early care and education than helping young children find this balance of competence and connectedness?”

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Observation

Observing Development of the Young Child, 8/eBeaty

ISBN: 9780132867566 • ©2014 • 384 pp.

Used successfully in early childhood programs all over the country since its inception, this unique and mainstay text looks at children’s development in every domain, preparing students to become skilled observers, with concrete detail about how to record what is observed, how to interpret the data, and how to become adept at using the observations to plan for learning.

The new edition of Jan Beaty’s best-selling book has undergone an extensive revision. The book’s original features and organization remain, while new research, issues, and more extensive coverage of observation is included in this edition. Chapters 1 and 2 were reorganized and expanded to include the basics of observation. The text itself has become more streamlined, more reader-friendly, with fewer chapters (12 instead of 14), yet with many more boxed ideas. Other examples of observation tools that have been added include running records, rubrics, rating scales, portfolios, documentation panels, and other forms of visual documentation. Strategies for working with dual language learners are included throughout the book. The reorganization and restructuring of the text improves on its past success; the simplification and improvements will appeal to students and instructors alike. What emerges is the most current observation text on the market, modernized to reach today’s population of early childhood education students.

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Administration / Mentoring

Developing Mentoring and Coaching Relationships in Early Care and Education: A Reflective ApproachChu

ISBN: 9780132658232 • ©2014 • 224 pp.

Packed with helpful reflective questions, illustrative mentoring and coaching scenarios, and ready-to-implement planning tools, this book is the ideal resource for anyone responsible for guiding pre-service, emerging, or experienced teachers as they encounter real world challenges in today’s early childhood programs. Each chapter offers a variety of ways to put teachers on the path to achieving greater professional effectiveness using responsive, relationship-based approaches. The focus is on encouraging reflection on current practices in order to achieve quality programs, meet teaching standards, and promote positive outcomes for children in these times of rising standards and, in many cases, lower levels of support.

In this text, readers learn to facilitate professional development by focusing on observed strengths through mentoring and coaching relationships that allow for safe conversations about what is happening, how it is affecting children, and how to investigate and try out needed changes. Included are ideas for supporting playful, inquiry-based learning and fostering the ability to explain and document why it is effective, using a process of mentoring for inquiry, reflection, and leadership.

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Student Teaching / Practicum

Your Early Childhood Practicum and Student Teaching Experience: Guidelines for Success, 3/eTyminski

ISBN: 9780132869959 • ©2014 • 304 pp.

This reality based textbook provides insights and useful guidelines for success in any early childhood education student teaching, practicum, or field experience course.

Designed for students who are assuming the responsibilities of teaching young children while receiving guidance and supervision, this thoroughly revised manual offers both theory and practical application to guide each student to a successful conclusion of the practicum or student teaching experience. Featuring the most up-to-date applications of theory and current research, special care has been taken to synthesize information and present guidelines for professional behavior, lesson planning, portfolio development, diverse family structures, cultural diversity, inclusion, and working with children who have special needs. Additionally, current information on national and state standards, the reauthorization of NCLB, and assessment is included. With a realness factor, authentic features, and a compelling writing style, this must-have textbook guides students from the early days of preparing to begin the field experience, through the final days before leaving, as well as everything in between.

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Language Development in Early Childhood Education

Language Development in Early Childhood Education, 4/eOtto

ISBN: 9780132867559 • ©2014 • 480 pp.

This text efficiently combines theory, research, and intentional developmentally appropriate practice to provide a solid foundation for understanding language development from birth to age eight. Not only does it provide excellent guidance on how to develop classrooms and guidelines that enhance children’s language development, but it also has a unique chapter on observing children and assessing their language abilities and provides suggestions for family collaboration.

This text presents future early childhood educators with a compelling, comprehensive view of language development in young children while remaining focused on the development of phonological, semantic, syntactic, morphemic, and pragmatic language skills, children’s understanding of written language, and ways in which this acquisition process can be enhanced in early childhood settings. Interesting vignettes of young children’s language development open each chapter, and within each chapter anecdotal narratives illustrate key concepts and interaction strategies.

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Creative Arts and Expression in Early Childhood

Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning:Preschool Through Fourth Grade, Plus Video-Enhanced Pearson eText, 6/e Isenberg / Jalongo

ISBN: 9780133400106 • ©2014 • 528 pp.

This versatile resource shows future and current early childhood educators how to integrate children’s creativity, play, and the arts into their curriculum in a way that fosters learning and growth, meets accountability measures, emphasizes the use of technology to enhance creativity and the arts, and suggests ways to differentiate instruction and make adaptations for diverse learners across the art forms.

The authors distill essential research on creativity and learning and share methods that guide classroom teachers in promoting creativity, play, art, music, dance, and drama for all children. It supports the teacher’s role by addressing the classroom environment, materials and resources, behavior management, assessment, and culturally responsive teaching. This comprehensive text examines creative thought and play as foundational to arts-based learning, provides a strong research base, highlights how the arts and creative thought meet national standards through classroom activities and experiences, and includes practical features such as answers to frequently asked questions, extensive new technology applications, and suggestions for teaching the arts to diverse learners.

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Social Studies in Early Childhood

Social Studies for the Preschool/Primary Child, 9/eSeefeldt / Castle / Falconer

ISBN: 9780132867986 • ©2014 • 384 pp.

Highly regarded in the marketplace, this sound resource provides a multitude of practical ideas, suggestions, and activities that prospective early childhood teachers can use to interest young children in social studies and integrate social studies with other content areas: science; the arts; literacy, language development, writing, and literature; and mathematics.

Written with an emphasis on child development that resounds throughout the text, readers will discover foundational chapters on thinking, social skills, and cultural values as they learn how to incorporate such considerations into their teaching of the social studies. Chapters on planning, assessment, and resources for learning will support the beginning teacher in implementing a developmentally appropriate social studies curriculum. Additionally, the authors have included separate chapters on play, diversity, and including students with special needs. This edition covers all ten of the recently revised NCSS Thematic Strands, and the current NAEYC standards for quality, curriculum, and professional preparation are thoroughly incorporated. Culture and diversity, a new feature on children’s literature, and a greater emphasis on integrating technology are also highlights of this edition.

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INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

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This course provides an introduction to the historical, theoretical, and developmental foundations for educating young children, with an emphasis on creating inclusive environments and curricula that are responsive to the needs of diverse children and their families. Topics include historical influences, program types, guidance strategies, professionalism, current trends and issues, and advocacy.

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DiscussionsQuizzes

and ExamsClock Hours

Reading and Review

AssignmentsStudent

Preparation Time

Lesson Total

1 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 4 3.5 7.5 11.25

2 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 4 3.5 7.5 11.25

3 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

4 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

5 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

6 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

7 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

8 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

9 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

10 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

11 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

12 1.125 1.5 0.5 3.75 3.5 3.5 7 10.75

Total 45 85 130

45.1 *50-minute clock hour

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LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 1: Roles, Responsibilities, and Education of Early Childhood Education Professionals Topics: Roles of the ECE Professional, Job Opportunities, Education Levels, ECE Programs

Analyze the roles, responsibilities, and requirements for those who work in early childhood settings

• Explain the mission and purpose of the early childhood professional • Describe the various roles of professionals in the field of early childhood education• Explain education expectations for those working in various roles in the field of ECE• Describe the unique characteristics of various early childhood settings including

family child care, center-based care and education (public and private), infant/toddler care, Head Start, public pre-kindergarten, primary grades, and after-school care

Lesson 2: History and Theories of ECETopics: Historical Figures, Theories of Child Development, Learning Theories, Program Models

Analyze the evolution of the field of ECE through its historical figures and developmental and learning theorists

• Describe contributions of historical figures to the field of early childhood education • Compare the various theories of child development• Compare the various learning theories

Lesson 3: Current Issues in ECE-Research, Trends, and PolicyTopics: Current Trends, Research Implications

Analyze current issues that have implications for children, families, society, and early childhood professionals

• Identify current issues in early childhood education • Describe the current trends in early childhood education in terms of their

impact on children, families, and early childhood professionals• Analyze the implications of research on early childhood education

Lesson 4: Child DevelopmentTopics: The Developmental Domains, Development and Learning for Infants and Toddlers, Development and Learning for Preschoolers, Development and Learning for Kindergartners, Development and Learning for Children in the Primary Grades

Describe the age-related developmental accomplishments of young children from birth through age eight in each of the developmental domains, and their corresponding appropriate teaching strategies

• Describe the characteristics of children ages zero through age eight in each developmental domain

• Describe the typical age-related developmental accomplishments for each age group, including infants and toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and children in the primary grades

• Explain how knowledge of child development impacts care and education of infants and toddlers

• Explain how knowledge of child development impacts teaching for preschoolers• Explain how knowledge of child development impacts teaching of children in kindergarten• Explain how knowledge of child development impacts

teaching of children in the primary grades

LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 5: Being an Effective Teacher: DAP, Environments, and PlayTopics: What DAP Means, Applying Developmentally Appropriate Teaching Practices, Creating Appropriate Environments, The Role of Play

Critique developmentally appropriate learning environments for children ages zero through eight years of age

• Explain the concept of Developmentally Appropriate Practices • Explain how DAP considers the age-related developmental

characteristics of young children• Explore how DAP addresses individual differences• Describe how DAP is responsive to social and cultural contexts• Apply developmentally appropriate teaching practices

to learning in the developmental domains• Describe how DAP influence the arrangement of the learning environment• Critique the application of DAP to the early childhood education environment• Explain the role of play in developmentally appropriate environments

Lesson 6: Special Needs and Cultural and Linguistic DiversityTopics: Including Exceptional Children, Supporting Children who are English Language Learners, Special Education Language

Analyze programs that support individual differences, are culturally responsive, and include all children

• Describe early childhood education inclusive practices • Analyze early childhood education interpersonal environments that

are responsive to cultural, linguistic, and individual needs• Analyze early childhood education physical environments that

are responsive to cultural, linguistic, and individual needs• Explain the terminology in special education

Lesson 7: Standards for Effective Practice and Curriculum in Early ChildhoodTopics: Define Curriculum, Writing Standards-Based Curriculum, Connecting Developmental Domains to Curriculum Content Areas, Connecting Developmental Domains and Content Knowledge, Planning and Implementing Effective Curriculum

Analyze the early childhood education standards as they relate to the preparation of developmentally appropriate curriculum

• Describe the various standards that promote recommended practices • Explain how program quality standards impact curriculum development• Explain how the developmental domains and knowledge of

content areas relate to curriculum development• Describe the characteristics of effective curriculum• Explain how intentional teachers plan and implement curriculum

Lesson 8: Health, Safety, and Well-Being of All ChildrenTopics: Healthy Practices, Hazards in Children’s Settings and the Role of Supervision, Teaching Health and Wellness Concepts to Young Children, How Play Promotes Healthy Development

Analyze practices that ensure the health, safety, and well being of all children

• Describe practices that promote health, good nutrition and cleanliness in early childhood settings

• Analyze the qualities of early childhood environments that promote safety in indoor and outdoor settings

• Explain practices that promote the health, safety, and well-being of all children• Justify the role of play in healthful development and learning

LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 9: Guiding Young ChildrenTopics: Define Guidance vs. Discipline, Guidance Strategies, Effectively Using Guidance Strategies, Define Self-Regulation and Executive Functioning, Creating Environments that Promote Appropriate Behaviors

Compare a variety of guidance strategies to help children develop emotional self-regulation and avoid challenging behaviors

• Explain the guidance strategies that facilitate appropriate behavior in early childhood • Identify how the individual guidance strategies impact specific behaviors in children• Determine how to use a variety of guidance strategies

in the early childhood education classroom• Promote practices that support the development of self-regulation skills• Determine the effectiveness of early childhood environments in promoting

appropriate behavior and reducing inappropriate behavior of children

Lesson 10: Family, School, and Community PartnershipsTopics: Families Today, What is Meaningful, Family Involvement, Effect Communication with Families

Describe strategies that foster teacher and family partnerships for effectiveness in early childhood Programs

• Describe diverse family structures and impacts on family life that challenge children’s learning

• Describe the benefits of creating positive relationships and meaningful family involvement

• Describe types of effective communication techniques for involving families in EC programs

• Explain the role of the EC teacher in connecting families to community resources

Lesson 11: Assessment of Young ChildrenTopics: Purpose of Assessment, Benefits of Using Various Methods of Assessment, Implications for Program Quality, Making Sense of Assessment Information

Describe the role of assessment and documentation as tools to inform curriculum development and improve teaching, child learning outcomes, and early childhood program quality

• Describe the different approaches used to assess young children • Describe the advantages and disadvantages for various

types of assessments in early childhood• Explain the positive contributions of documenting

assessment results to teaching and learning• Explain how assessment findings shape decision making and influence

teaching, learning, and early childhood program quality

Lesson 12: Professionalism in Early ChildhoodTopics: Acting as a Professional in ECE, Advocacy and Social Justice, Making Change Happen in ECE, Exploring Cultural Competence

Evaluate the attributes of professionalism in the field of early childhood education, including professional practice, advocacy, social justice

• Explain what it means to be an ECE professional: ethical conduct and using evidence-based practices

• Describe the role of advocacy in the field of ECE• Explain ways EC professionals can contribute the development

of policies that impact early childhood education• Explain what it means to be a culturally competent EC professional

HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD SETTINGS

Course DescriptionThis course focuses on the physical and psychological health, safety, and nutritional needs of children, from birth to age eight, and how to meet these needs in group settings. Topics include wellness of young children, standards, guidelines and national initiatives, children’s nutritional needs, safe and healthy environments, preventing and responding to emergencies, child abuse and neglect, planning educational experiences, and partnering with families.

Credit Hour Designation: 3.0

Total Course Hours: 130.5

Total Clock Hours: 36

Total Student Preparation Hours: 94.5

TIME ON TASK

Lesson Number

Lesson Presentation

DiscussionsQuizzes

and ExamsClock Hours

Reading and Review

AssignmentsStudent

Preparation Time

Lesson Total

1 1 1.5 0.5 3 5 3 8 11

2 1 1.5 0.5 3 6 1.5 7.5 10.5

3 1 1.5 0.5 3 9 3 12 15

4 1 1.5 0.5 3 10 3 13 16

5 1 1.5 0.5 3 4 1.5 5.5 8.5

6 1 1.5 0.5 3 8 3 11 14

7 1 1.5 0.5 3 4 3 7 10

8 1 1.5 0.5 3 0.5 3 3.5 6.5

9 1 1.5 0.5 3 4 3 7 10

10 1 1.5 0.5 3 6 3 9 12

11 1 1.5 0.5 3 4 1.5 5.5 8.5

12 1 1.5 0.5 3 4 1.5 5.5 8.5

Total 36 94.5 130.5

43.2 *50-minute clock hour

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LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 1: Wellness issues Topics: The importance of nutrition and health in the early years, The relationship between health safety and nutrition, Trends in children’s health safety and nutrition, Influences on children’s health safety and nutrition

Analyze wellness issues as they apply to young children

• Analyze the impact of the early years on children’s life-long health and nutritional status• Explain how health, safety, and nutrition are interrelated• Describe current trends affecting health, safety, and nutrition• Analyze the impact of the early years on children’s life-long health and nutritional status• Explain how health, safety, and nutrition are interrelated• Describe current trends affecting health, safety, and nutrition• Describe the influences on children’s health, safety, and nutritional status• Analyze the impact of the early years on children’s life-long health and nutritional status

Lesson 2: Standards, guidelines, and national initiativesTopics: The role of nutrition standards, guidelines, and national initiatives in program and teaching practices, The role of safety standards, guidelines, and national initiatives in program and teaching practices, The role of health standards, guidelines, and national initiatives in program and teaching practices

Analyze health, safety, and nutrition standards, guidelines, and national initiatives and their role in early childhood settings

• Explain the effect of nutrition standards, guidelines, and national initiatives on program and teaching practices• Explain the effect of safety standards, guidelines, and national initiatives on program and teaching practices• Explain the effect of nutrition standards, guidelines, and national initiatives on program and teaching practices• Explain the effect of safety standards, guidelines, and national initiatives on program and teaching practices• Explain the effect of health standards, guidelines, and national initiatives on program and teaching practices• Explain the effect of nutrition standards, guidelines, and national initiatives on program and teaching practices

Lesson 3: Nutritional needs of children Topics: The basics of early childhood nutrition, Nutritional meal plans and snacks for the early childhood setting , Positive developmentally appropriate meal time environments for infants Positive developmentally appropriate meal time environments for toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children

Design early childhood environments that meet the nutritional needs of children

• Analyze the quality and developmental appropriateness of meal time environments for infants• Analyze the quality and developmental appropriateness of meal time

environments for toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children • Develop meal plans and snacks that meet children’s nutritional needs • Explain the basics of early childhood nutrition • Explain the basics of early childhood nutrition • Analyze the quality and developmental appropriateness of meal time environments for infants• Analyze the quality and developmental appropriateness of meal time

environments for toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children • Develop meal plans and snacks that meet children’s nutritional needs

Lesson 4: Physically safe environmentsTopics: Safe indoor environments, Safe outdoor environments, Supervision in early childhood education settings, Food safety issues

Design physically safe environments for children in early childhood settings

• Design a safe early childhood indoor educational environment• Design a safe early childhood outdoor educational environment• Describe effective supervision in early childhood education settings • Identify food safety issues• Design a safe early childhood indoor educational environment• Design a safe early childhood outdoor educational environment• Identify food safety issues • Describe effective supervision in early childhood education settings

LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 5: Effective emergency responseTopics: Common injuries in young children, Preventing and responding to emergencies, Responding to disasters

Plan for effective emergency response in early childhood settings

• Recognize the most common types of injuries in young children• Establish policies and procedures for preventing and responding to emergencies• Determine the effectiveness of a disaster response plan• Recognize the most common types of injuries in young children• Establish policies and procedures for preventing and responding to emergencies• Determine the effectiveness of a disaster response plan • Recognize the most common types of injuries in young children

Lesson 6: Healthy environmentsTopics: Health screenings and assessment, Health conditions that affect children

Create healthy environments for children in early childhood settings

• Describe the role of health screenings and assessment in early childhood settings• Analyze health conditions that affect children• Describe the role of health screenings and assessment in early childhood settings• Analyze health conditions that affect children• Describe the role of health screenings and assessment in early childhood settings

Lesson 7: Preventing and Managing IllnessTopics: Health policies in early childhood settings, The teacher’s role in managing illness and common infectious diseases, Healthy practices to prevent the spread of illness

Create healthy environments for children in early childhood settings

• Establish health policies including safe medication administration• Assess healthy practices to prevent the spread of illness in early childhood settings• Describe the teacher’s role in managing illness and common infectious diseases• Establish health policies including safe medication administration• Design healthy practices to prevent the spread of illness • Describe the teacher’s role in managing illness and common infectious diseases• Establish health policies including safe medication administration

Lesson 8: Children’s emotional health and safetyTopics: The effect of mental health on children’s development, The teacher’s role in creating a pro-social environment, Responding to aggressive behavior, Addressing children’s varied mental health needs

Evaluate children’s emotional health and safety

• Describe the relationship between mental health and child development• Determine the teacher’s effectiveness in creating a pro-social environment• Illustrate effective responses to aggressive behavior• Analyze ways to address children’s varied mental health needs• Describe the relationship between mental health and child development• Determine the teacher’s effectiveness in creating a pro-social environment• Illustrate effective responses to aggressive behavior• Analyze ways to address children’s varied mental health needs • Describe the relationship between mental health and child development

Lesson 9: Child abuse and neglectTopics: Risk factors for child abuse and neglect Signs of child abuse and neglect, Reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect, The early childhood educator’s role in the prevention of child abuse and neglect

Explain child abuse and neglect issues in early childhood

• Explain the reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect• Describe risk factors for child abuse and neglect• Explain the early childhood educator’s role in the prevention of child abuse and neglect • Describe risk factors for child abuse and neglect• Recognize signs of child abuse and neglect• Explain the early childhood educator’s role in the prevention of child abuse and neglect • Explain the reporting requirements for child abuse and neglect

LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 10: Effective learning experiencesTopics: Learning experiences focused on health concepts and activities for young children, Safety awareness activities for young children, Nutrition education activities for young children

Develop effective learning experiences for young children in the areas of health, safety, and nutrition

• Develop learning experiences focused on health concepts and activities for young children• Develop safety awareness activities for young children• Develop nutrition education activities for young children• Develop learning experiences focused on health concepts and activities for young children• Develop safety awareness activities for young children• Develop nutrition education activities for young children • Develop learning experiences focused on health concepts and activities for young children

Lesson 11: Partnering with FamiliesTopics: Partnerships with families to meet children’s nutritional needs , Partnerships with families to provide for children’s special health care needs

Develop plans to partner with families to promote children’s wellness

• Develop strategies that facilitate collaboration with families to meet children’s nutritional needs including the support of breast feeding

• Describe ways that early childhood educators can partner with families to provide for children’s special health care needs

• Develop strategies that facilitate collaboration with families to meet children’s nutritional needs including the support of breast feeding

• Describe ways that early childhood educators can partner with families to provide for children’s special health care needs

• Develop strategies that facilitate collaboration with families to meet children’s nutritional needs including the support of breast feeding

Lesson 12: Promote children’s wellnessTopics: Educational opportunities for families in the areas of health, safety, and nutrition, Ways that culture can play a role in children’s health, safety, and nutrition

Develop plans to partner with families to promote children’s wellness

• Determine the effectiveness of educational opportunities for families in the areas of health, safety, and nutrition• Describe the role of culture in children’s health, safety, and nutrition• Determine the effectiveness of educational opportunities for families in the areas of health, safety, and nutrition• Describe the role of culture in children’s health, safety, and nutrition• Determine the effectiveness of educational opportunities for families in the areas of health, safety, and nutrition

TIME-ON-TASK

Lesson Number

Lesson Presentation Discussions Quizzes and

Exams Labs 60-Minute Clock Hours

Reading and Review Assignments

Student Preparation

Time

Lesson Total

1 1.5 1.5 0.5 0 3.5 3 4.5 7.5 11

2 1.5 1.5 0.5 0 3.5 3 4.5 7.5 11

3 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 4 7 10

4 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 4 7 10

5 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 3.5 6.5 9.5

6 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 3.5 6.5 9.5

7 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 3.5 6.5 9.5

8 1.5 1.5 0.5 0 3.5 3 3.5 6.5 10

9 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 3.5 6.5 9.5

10 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 3.5 6.5 9.5

11 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 3.5 6.5 9.5

12 1.5 1 0.5 0 3 3 3.5 6.5 9.5

Total 37.5 81 118.5

45.0 *50-minute clock hour

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CURRICULUM IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Course Description

This course prepares teacher candidates for success in planning and teaching in the early childhood classroom, ages birth through eight. Emphasis is placed on appropriate content knowledge and teaching strategies that incorporate information related to child development, learning theories, and the use of assessment and standards in the early childhood years. Teacher candidates will explore various models of instruction as they develop lesson plans and activities that are appropriate for young children. Prior knowledge of child development and familiarity with early childhood classrooms is recommended for success.

Credit Hour Designation: 3.0

Total Course Hours: 38

Total Clock Hours: 45

Total Student Preparation Hours: 81

LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 1: Developmentally Appropriate PracticeTopics: Quality, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Active Child Engagement, Play

Analyze the degree to which a learning experience reflects a developmentally appropriate practice

• Recognize the relationship between developmentally appropriate practices and quality• Explain the three areas of knowledge (age-related expectations, individual differences, and

social and cultural contexts) that form the core of developmentally appropriate practice• Explain the role of active child engagement in developmentally appropriate practice• Analyze stages of play in relation to developmentally appropriate practice

Lesson 2: Curriculum Foundations, Models, and StandardsTopics: Child Development, ECE Program Models, Federal- and State-Based Programs, Benefits and Concerns, Where Do Standards Come From, Uses of Standards

Explain how curriculum is affected by theories, models, government programs, and standards

• Compare the major early childhood theories• Compare ECE program models• Describe how federal- and state-based programs have impacted early childhood• Explain the benefits and concerns of using standards in early childhood education• Describe what standards might affect curriculum development in the early years• Explain how early learning guidelines and state standards

can be used in curriculum development

Lesson 3: Family PartnershipsTopics: Benefits of Reciprocal Relationships, Effective Communication, Communicating Curriculum

Create a plan to establish reciprocal relationships with families

• Describe the benefits of establishing reciprocal relationships with families• Critique different communication strategies for establishing

reciprocal relationships with families• Compare ways of involving families in curriculum development and implementation

Lesson 4: Environments–Physical and EmotionalTopics: Relationships, Guidance, Time and Transitions, Physical Environments

Plan developmentally appropriate learning environments for children ages 0-8 years of age

• Evaluate a child-teacher relationship for children 0-8 to determine if it is warm and caring within a developmentally appropriate environment

• Describe appropriate guidance techniques for a given situation• Critique a schedule for learning opportunities • Critique a physical environment for learning opportunities

Lesson 5: Curriculum PlanningTopics: Considerations in Curriculum Planning, Preparing for Learning Plan Topics, Developing Plan for Learning

Plan developmentally appropriate learning experiences for young children

• Describe the different elements a teacher must consider in developing curriculum plans • Plan appropriate learning topics for young children• Critique plans for learning experiences with young children

LESSON TITLE AND TOPICS COURSE OUTCOMES AND LESSON OBJECTIVES

Lesson 6: Curriculum ImplementationTopics: Small Group Instruction, Large Group Instruction, Individual Learning Centers, Outdoor Learning, Instructional Strategies

Compare different teaching techniques in relationship to children’s development and learning

• Analyze the purpose of teacher led small group instruction• Analyze the purpose of teacher-led large group instruction• Analyze the purpose of learning centers• Analyze the purpose of outdoor learning activities• Compare the uses of various instructional strategies

Lesson 7: Assessment and ReflectionTopics: Purpose of Assessment, Types of Assessment, Using Assessment

Compare various forms of assessment with respect to their use for planning, documenting, communicating, and reflecting

• Describe the need and use for assessment in the classroom• Compare the various forms of assessment• Describe multiple uses of assessment in an early childhood classroom

Lesson 8: Math, Science, and TechnologyTopics: Mathematics, Science, Technology

Design a developmentally appropriate math, science, or technology learning experience

• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate mathematics curriculum• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate science curriculum• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate technology curriculum

Lesson 9: Physical Education and Creative ArtsTopics: Physical Education, Visual Arts, Music and Movement, Drama

Design a developmentally appropriate physical education or creative arts learning experience

• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate physical education curriculum• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate visual arts curriculum• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate music and movement curriculum• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate drama curriculum

Lesson 10: Literacy Topics: Literacy, Language Development, Children’s Literature

Design a developmentally appropriate literacy learning experience• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate literacy curriculum• Describe how teachers support language development in children • Describe how children’s literature supports developmentally appropriate curriculum

Lesson 11: Social StudiesTopics: Social-Emotional Development, Social Studies Strands, Multicultural and Anti-Bias Education

Design a developmentally appropriate social studies learning experience• Describe learning experiences that support children’s social-emotional development• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate social studies curriculum• Describe the characteristics of a developmentally appropriate

multicultural and anti-bias curriculum

Lesson 12: Integrating CurriculumTopics: Integrating Through Themes, Integrating Through Environments, Integrating Through Lessons

Design integrated learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for young people• Create a lesson that integrates developmentally appropriate

content from at least two different curriculum areas• Create a learning center that integrates developmentally appropriate

content from at least three different curriculum areas• Create an integrated theme or project that includes developmentally

appropriate content from at least three different curriculum areas

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