Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children:Promoting Wellness - Softcover

Joanne, Sorte; Inge, Daeschel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132349418 ISBN 13: 9780132349413

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2010

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Book by Sorte Joanne Daeschel Inge Amador Carolina

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This book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through 8 years of age. The book is designed to give future teachers practical, applied, easy-to-understand information that will prepare them to serve young children in the family child care, childcare center, preschool and early primary school setting. Students will find the case scenarios woven throughout the chapters engaging and an effective means to transfer the learning of concepts to real life settings. This transfer of learning is reinforced by web video clips available at the MyEducationlab website that bring what students read and learn to life. The text demonstrates how a strong curriculum at any age or stage of early childhood, birth through age 8, allows teachers to teach and model healthy practices with regard to nutrition, health, and safety. The authors' accessible and engaging writing style bring the reader into the classroom by weaving in classroom scenarios. In addition, chapter features entitled "Nutrition Notes," "Safety Segments," "Policy Points," and "Health Hints" provide students with information on current topics of interest and controversy while "What ifs.. " feature boxes promote critical thinking skills to make decisions about topics they might encounter in the early childhood setting. Presents integrated curriculum for teaching nutrition, health and wellness; promotescurrent evidence-based practices; aligns with National Health Education standards; accessible writing style brings readers into the classroom; promotes culturally responsive teaching. KEY TOPICS: Addresses the obesity epidemic, promoting sustainability, health curriculum, accommodating the nutrition, health and safety needs of all children; building relationships with families MARKET: Two-year health, safety, and nutrition courses.

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Prepare with the Power of Classroom Practice.

· Take Practice Tests for each chapter of your text.
– Completion of each practice test generates a study plan that is unique to you.
– The study plan links to text excerpts activities with feedback, and videos and other media that can help you master concepts covered in your text.
· Complete Assignments and Activities to apply text content to real classroom situations.
· Authentic classroom video shows real teachers and students interacting, and helps prepare you for the classroom.
· Explore the Building Teaching Skills and Dispositions exercises to practice and strengthen the skills that are essential to teaching.
· Case studies offer real-life perspectives on common issues and challenges faced in the classroom.
· Authentic student and teacher classroom artifacts provide you with the actual types of materials encountered every day by teachers.

To order this book WITH MyEducationLab, use either ISBN:
ISBN-13: 9780131381209
ISBN-10: 0131381202

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• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0132349418
• ISBN 13: 9780132349413
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 696