use this PPT to complete your assignment

1. Areas of
Development

2. Bell Work
Directions: On a blank piece of paper answer the following
questions referencing the pictures on this slide. Answer in full
sentences and try to think past the obvious!
– “What do these children have in common?”
– “What makes these children unique?”
– “Why should you learn about how children develop?”

3. What is Child Development?
• The study of how children master new skills
• Children go through the same stages of
development at about the same time but
each child is unique

4. What influences development?
• Heredity
– Children inherit certain characteristics from
parents
• Environment
– Opportunities
– Experiences

5. Activity
• Directions:
– Use the booklet given to you and label the pages like the
samples as follows (you will use both front and back sides of
the pages starting with the cover)
• Cover – “Areas of Development” and your Name
• Page #1 – “Physical”
• Page #2 – “Gross Motor Skills”
• Page #3 – “Fine Motor Skills”
• Page #4 – “Mental/Intellectual”
• Page #5 – “Emotional”
• Page #6 – “Social”
– Each page should have the header, definition, example, and
a picture showing the area of development
• Use the following slides to help you get this information

6. Areas of Development
• Physical
• Mental/Intellectual
• Emotional
• Social

7. Physical
• Physical Development:
– The physical growth and development of both
gross and fine motor control of the body.
– Examples: Weight, height

8. Physical
• Gross Motor Skills: large muscle movements
• Examples: rolling, sitting, crawling, standing
and walking.
• Fine Motor Skills: small muscle movements
• Examples: Using scissors, beading, threading
a needle, coloring

9. Mental/Intellectual
• Also known as “cognitive” development
• Information processing
– Examples:
• Remembering their address
• Counting
• Puts a puzzle together
• What could be other examples?

10. Emotional
• Development of a full range of emotions
and learning to deal with them
appropriately
– Examples: sad, happy, angry, temper
tantrums

11. Social
• Linked to emotional
• Incorporates public concerns in
developing social policy
• Moral
– Examples: what is right and
wrong