Growth and Development
Overall Expectations
- Patterns in Infant and Child Development: demonstrate an understanding of patterns of social, emotional, cognitive, linguistic, and physical development in infants and children from birth to six years of age;
- Positive Environments for Development: demonstrate an understanding of how developmentally appropriate environments and experiences promote healthy development in children.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- identify and compare the nutritional and physical-activity requirements of children at different stages between birth and six years of age, based on current recommendations from Health Canada
- describe strategies early childhood educators can use to promote healthy eating among young children from birth to six years of age
Lessons that meet Grade 11 expectations
Educational Games
Addressing Social Challenges
Overall Expectations
- Issues and Challenges: demonstrate an understanding of a variety of issues and challenges that early childhood educators encounter;
- Social and Cultural Variations: demonstrate an understanding of how a variety of social and cultural factors affect young children.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- identify strategies used for ensuring the safety of children from birth to six years of age in a variety of childcare environments (e.g., Internet safety education; bullying prevention programs; Stay Alert, Stay Safe programs)
- describe strategies that can be used in early learning programs to challenge gender stereotypes
Lessons that meet Grade 11 expectations
Educational Games
Research and Inquiry Skills
Overall Expectations
- Exploring: explore topics related to early childhood education, and formulate questions to guide their research
- Investigating: create research plans, and locate and select information relevant to their chosen topics, using appropriate social science research and inquiry methods
- Processing Information: assess, record, analyse, and synthesize information gathered through research and inquiry
- Communicating and Reflecting: communicate the results of their research and inquiry clearly and effectively, and reflect on and evaluate their research, inquiry, and communication skills.
Specific Expectations
Students will:
- identify key concepts (e.g., through discussion, brainstorming, use of visual organizers) related to their selected topics
- formulate effective questions to guide their research and inquiry
- create appropriate research plans to investigate their selected topics (e.g., outline purpose and method; identify sources of information), ensuring that their plans follow guidelines for ethical research
- locate and select information relevant to their investigations from a variety of primary sources
- based on preliminary research, for each investigation formulate a hypothesis, thesis statement, or research question, and use it to focus their research
- assess various aspects of information gathered from primary and secondary sources (e.g., accuracy, relevance, reliability, inherent values and bias, voice)
- analyse and interpret research information
- synthesize findings and formulate conclusions
- demonstrate academic honesty by documenting the sources of all information generated through research
- demonstrate an understanding of the general research process by reflecting on and evaluating their own research, inquiry, and communication skills
Lessons that meet Secondary expectations
- Deconstructing Web Pages
- Hate or Debate
- I heard it ‘round the Internet: Sexual health education and authenticating online information
- Taming the Wild Wiki