Child Studies COMPLETE UNIT: Play and the Developing Child

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 Play and the Developing Child unit within the Child Studies subject has students investigating and experiencing different types of play-based learning which contribute to the positive development of children. They assess a range of play choices, environments and activities in terms of learning, suitability, sustainability and safety.

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
• Differentiated Extension Task for students who are more advanced in the subject (could also be used as a homework task)
• Assessment Task to provide the teacher with a summative mark and evaluation of student learning at the end of the unit. This assessment task has students create a presentation on their favourite childhood toy.
• There is also a Life Skills assessment task for Support students who are not capable of attempting components of the mainstream assessment task. This task has students produce ‘rules’ for a range of games they could play with children in an early childhood setting
• 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 and Differentiated Assessment Task 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.