...Health, safety and nutrition Amanda Gonzalez Kaplan University CE220 Child Safety, Nutrition and Health Professor Mary Ball March 7, 2015 Parents are often asked what is the most important thing they look for when seeking a high quality childcare center, a healthy and safe environment is always at the top of the list. Early childhood professionals promote physical, mental health, appropriate nutrition and provide an emotionally, physically safe environment for young children in partnership with their families. Sound health, safety, and nutritional practices provide the foundation for development and learning. Good nutrition is critical to overall development of young children. Meals and snacks encourage good nutrition and eating habits. A safe environment prevents and reduces injuries for young children who are only beginning to recognize dangerous situations (Academics). With all this in mind, childcare providers must include parents in their efforts to create healthy and safe environments and teach healthy habits to the children in their child care program. There are numerous ways to help promote age appropriate learning activities that reinforce the importance of health, nutrition and safety. Children learn the best when they are doing things they enjoy. One age appropriate activity for the age range of 3-5 could be coloring. This activity is a great way for children to express their creativity while learning. Children...
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...CLC assignment. It is important to promote the professional role of the nurse to provide health promotion and disease preventive care. Collaborating with other health care professionals and consumer groups in the community in redesigning health care can help meet the goals for Healthy People 2020. Refer to http://www.healthypeople.gov/ to open the Healthy People home page. 1. Select the "2020 Topics & Objectives" tab. 2. Select one of the 42 "Healthy People" topic areas for improving health. 3. Submit the proposed area to the instructor for approval. No group may work on the same focus area as another group. Develop a PowerPoint presentation (15-20 slides) with accompanying speaker's notes and citations. For help designing PowerPoint slides, refer to the tutorial listed in the Topic Materials. In the presentation, address the following: 1. State the objective of the presentation. • The objective of the presentation is what role does nursing play in helping to construct public and physical settings that encourage good health for all patients across the health continuum. 2. State the Healthy People 2020 focus area your group has selected and the rationale for selection of the specific focus area. • “The Social Determinants of Health topic area within Healthy People 2020 is designed to identify ways to create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.” CITE HERE’ (came from the healthy people 2020 cite) 3. Explain how the focus area...
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...better and their minds braced up for the opportunities and challenges education presents? This paper therefore explores the nutrition, safety, health and physical fitness surrounding the programs and its resources to attain maximum benefits obtained by the children. Health and safety Some needs should be atleast our priority if not our second nature. Protecting our young ones from neglect, abuse and health hazards is imperative in operating such a program. To start us off is the indoor environment as this is the place they spend most of their learning time. The programs were reasonably up to the task as the classrooms were sparklingly clean and physically accessible. My practical observation saw me discover that the 2 programs boast approximately 37 square feet per child of the usable classroom space activity excluding the lockers, bathrooms and hallways. The classroom management was top-notch with the spaces nicely divided; from private visible area, pathways, storage areas to spaces meant for playing individually or together in appropriate groups. The rest, sleep and eating areas and periods are strictly observed, ostensibly to create a good time with children. The sleeping area, free form restraints, is well arranged and the pathways eligible for quick emergency evacuation. Each child is entitled to his/her own clean sleeping materials and if your child is known to be sleep-repellant worry not you! There is an area specifically set aside for such children. Another un-crowded...
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...This paper will attempt to demonstrate an understanding of health promotion with emphasis on safety, nutrition, and developmental needs of individuals across the lifespan. However, the focus of this paper would be from the ages of 0-5 (infant to preschool). My first topic is on health promotion. Health Promotion: The immunization appropriate for this age according to CDC website includes the following: at birth, 1st dose of Hepatitis B vaccine is given, 2nd dose is given at 1 to 2 months and the last dose is given at 6 to 18 months of age. Rotavirus vaccine is given at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. The DTaP which is the diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine is given at 2, 4, 6, 12 to 18 months and 4-5 years old. The Hib vaccine protects against...
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...website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ECE 214 Week 5 Assignment, As educators, we want to encourage active participation among the diverse and busy families we work with in ways that consider their various structures, needs, lifestyles, and schedules. We teach children about health, wellness, nutrition, and safety in school; however, we want to offer families support for continuing this education in the home. Thematic backpacks, which are sent home with children for a week throughout the year, either on a rotating schedule or a sign-out system, is one idea for how to engage families at home. Thematic backpacks include materials, parent information, games, manipulatives, and other resources all centered on a teacher-created thematic plan to explore the contents in a fun and engaging way at home with the family. Children love these, and family members can be involved in learning at home when it is convenient for them. The purpose of the backpack is to encourage families to explore the areas where children need the most help. All the areas for helping children with nutrition, health, and safety. These back pack are designed to help your child at home to reinforce what children had learned in class this week. The childrenwill enhance on learning colors, sign and dance exercising their bodies, cutting, recognize the emergency numbers, recognizing fruit and vegetables. The teacher wants the parents to support their children by helping them to do their...
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...Introduction Early learning standards are “standards that describe expectations for the learning and development of young children across the domains of: health and physical well-being, social and emotional well-being; approaches to learning; language development and symbol systems; and general knowledge about the world around them” (CCSSO, 2005). “In early childhood, the development of foundation skills (skills that lay the foundation for later learning), is just as imperative as mystery of content matter” (Bodrova, Leong, & Shore, 2004). It is essential that effective early learning standards emphasize significant developmentally appropriate content and outcomes are developed and reviewed through informed, inclusive processes, gain their effectiveness through implementation and assessment practices that support all children’s development in an ethical, appropriate way and require a foundation of support for early childhood programs, professionals and families (NAEYC& NAESC/SDE, 2003). Learning standards are intended to set the bar for student achievement and in the primary years, they can be crafted to apply brain and development research in their implementations (Schiller& Willis, 2008). The most comprehensive set of standards for quality education and care in early childhood is known as Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) (NAEYC, 2009). Early learning standards will connect teaching practice and curriculum to government and community guidelines. This...
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...Title: SAFETY PRACTICES AND POLICIES By: Cheryl Wilcox Walden University Edu- 1005-1 Professor Erin Eissler While reading "Safety, Nutrition, and health in early childhood and working as a teacher for Head Start, I have learned about the different hazardous situations and safety threats, safety policy, ways to prevent these hazardous situations and safety threats from happening, and how families ensure the safety of a child at home. HAZARDOUS SITUATIONS AND SAFETY THREATS First, poison is one of the most common items found in households and early childhood education environment. These items are cleaners, medicines, plants, pesticides, and certain foods that can poison children if it gets into their system. In my classroom Head Start requires me to keep chemicals and other poisonous items in a locked cabinet unreachable to children, and post poison control number by the phone. Plants that are poisonous like poison ivy, poison oak, and sumac are not present in the classroom environment because it damages the skin by causing rashes. Families can ensure the safety of their children by storing all poisonous materials in a locked cabinet; examine all plants in home, and post poison control number by phone. It helps when the child is taught by teacher are parent what type of foods are good to eat and what is not, encourage children not to put any type of poisoning items in their mouth, and why we keep poison materials locked in a cabinet. Second, U.S PIRG Education...
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...Impact of Poor Nutrition on the Academic Performance of Grade Seven learners: A Case of Zimbabwe Kudzai Chinyoka Great Zimbabwe University Department of Educational Foundations Email: chinyokak@gmail.com Doi:10.5296/ijld.v4i3.6169 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijld.v4i3.6169 Abstract This paper examined the impact of poor nutrition on the academic performance of grade seven learners at two primary schools in Chivi, Zimbabwe. Its main objective is to identify mitigation policies and measures designed to reduce negative effects of poor nutrition on children’s academic performance. Malnutrition remains one of the major obstacles to human well-being affecting all areas of a child's growth and development, including performance in the classroom. The study is grounded in Maslow’s motivational and needs theory. In this study, a qualitative phenomenological case study design was used with focus group discussions, interviews and observations as data collection instruments to twelve (12) grade seven learners, three (3) headmasters and four (4) teachers, purposively sampled in Masvingo province. Findings revealed that malnutrition affected physical growth, cognitive development and it consequently impacts on academic performance, health and survival of learners. Malnutrition also deepens poverty due to increased health care costs. The study also established that hungry and undernourished grade seven learners were not able to take on physical work and sporting activities...
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...importance of health education for children in early childhood and school settings Introduction Nutrition education in Australian schools is becoming a more prevalent issue than in the past due to the increasing obesity rate. Childhood obesity has accelerated rapidly into one of the most significant health problems as well as being a prominent concern for early childhood professions. Obesity is the largest nutritional problem among Australian children where childhood obesity has been estimated to be rising to the extent of 1% per year. If we take these statistics and skip forward to 2025 it translates to 50% of Australia’s young people will be overweight. Historically the family has been a child’s main source of education in regards to health through a combination of direct and indirect instruction, the child then models this behaviour. Teachers must now also be the facilitators of children’s health education to build on what children are learning from their family, the more knowledge they gain in regards to what keeps them healthy and why, the better prepared they will be for a healthy adult life. A correlation between Australian children’s health and wellbeing, and their educational prospects has been identified. (Mathews 2004) Educators have the opportunity through curriculum to develop strategies to support health and nutritional education in line with best practice by adhering to the Health Promoting Schools model There is hope that improved health education for...
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...Thematic backpack plan jennifer cummings ece214: nutrition and health of children & families instructor: dr. lisset pickens February 8, 2016 Introduction letter Dear Parents/Guardians, My name is _________ and I am your child’s kindergarten teacher. This year, the school has started a new tradition called the “Thematic Backpack Plan”. The “Thematic Backpack Plan” is a backpack that will be sent home in with each student on a weekly rotation. This backpack will not only help the students, but the parents as well. It helps focus on nutrition, safety and how to eat healthy. It will help parents encourage children to be physically active and eat healthy to decrease bad eating habits as children along with decreasing childhood obesity. The backpack will be sent home every Monday and should be returned by the following Monday in order for another child to have it and share at home. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to contact me before school, after school, or during my break time (during your child’s lunch period and recess; 11:30-12:30). Thanks again, health In this activity, the students will be presented with thirty different food cards. Ten cards will be unhealthy food choices such as chips, candy, and cookies; another ten cards will be healthy food choices such as fruits and vegetables. Five cards will be unhealthy drinks such as soda and high sugar content juice; and the last five cards will be healthy drinks...
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...CD 205 Health, Safety, & Nutrition for the Young Child In order to determine the equivalency of programs and content, we ask that the instructor please complete this document. Listed below are examples of assignments or projects that are required of college students taking the course on campus. We ask that you please briefly explain or provide examples of your assignments or projects that students in your secondary (or adult) level course will have that address each topic and student learning outcome. Please insert your response under each numbered item below. 1. This assignment will be the beginning of your Competency Statements for your CDA Professional Resource File. You will complete the first paragraph of your statement within the following guidelines and rubric requirements: CSI Competency Statement I (To establish and maintain a safe, healthy learning environment): Begin your Reflective Statement about this Competency Standard with a paragraph describing how your teaching practices meet this Standard. Once you have completed this paragraph, you will put it in your CDA Professional Resource File with paragraphs a, b, and c following. (these will be assigned separately) (SLO 1) 2. Choose and complete a lesson plan for an activity that can be implemented with children and families to promote knowledge of nutrition. May include, but not limited to the following: * Eating Healthy Foods * Identifying nutritious foods * Meal Planning...
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...Definition of Nutrition Nutrition is the sum total of the processes involved in taking in and the utilization of food substances by which growth, repair and maintenance of the body are accomplished. It involves ingestion, digestion, absorption and assimilation. Nutrients are stored by the body in various forms and drawn upon when the food in take is not sufficient. Nutritional Knowledge Man knows about science and about a thousand and one other things but about nutrition he knows virtually nothing. That happens to be one of the sciences about which man is blissfully ignorant. even though his welfare, existence, health and life itself depend upon it. Importance of Nutritional Knowledge Poor nutrition is a chronic problem linked to poverty, poor nutrition understanding and practices, and deficient sanitation and food security. Malnutrition globally provides many challenges to individuals and societies. Lack of proper nutrition contributes to worse class performance, lower test scores, and eventually less successful students and a less productive and competitive economy. Malnutrition and its consequences are immense contributors to deaths and disabilities worldwide. Promoting good nutrition helps children grow, promotes human development and advances economic growth and eradication of poverty. About Malnutrition Malnutrition refers to insufficient, excessive, or imbalanced consumption of nutrients. In developed countries, the diseases...
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...CentreP.O. Box 50092Lusaka | ZAMBIA BASIC EDUCATION COURSE HOME ECONOMICS SYLLABUS GRADE 8 – 9 Published by the Curriculum Development Centre P.O. Box 50092 Lusaka (c) All rights Reserved. No parts of this syllabus may be produced, stored in a retrieval manner, transmitted in any means without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Phototypeset and printed by Printpak (Z) Ltd. P R E F A C E This Home Economics Syllabus is proposed in conformity with the Educational Reforms. It incorporates the following components: Food and Nutrition, Home Management, Health Education, Needlework and Crafts. Through this syllabus the learner is taught to prepare well balanced appetizing meals for the family with minimum equipment, limited time and money; to maintain and manage the available resources of the home; to provide clothing for the family; and to maintain the good physical and mental health of the members of the family. The content encourages practical experiences and creativity along with knowledge. The family is the smallest unit of the community. By improving family life, the syllabus aims at improving the community as a whole. Chairman EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL OF ZAMBIA DIRECTOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CENTRE LUSAKA I A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S The members of the Home Economics Working Committee were: Mrs. G.M. Allen Inspectorate HQ, Lusaka Ms. A. Kabwe Inspectorate HQ, Lusaka Mrs. P.M. Phiri Inspectorate HQ,...
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...whose care we leave them in. For instance if I were enrolling my 6-month old child into daycare for the first time I may look at certain characteristics of a daycare before deciding on a daycare. I would look at characteristics such as the physical setting, safety, personal qualifications cognitive stimulation, cost or even the proximity; all these would play a contributing factor to me deciding on a daycare facility that I am comfortable with and also meets my needs and expectations. A lot of daycare facilities have websites that allow parents to view information about their daycare facility. I would review the information and any reviews that may be available on-line and list all potential daycares; I would then contact the daycare so that I could schedule a visit. This will allow me to speak one on one with the director and to tour the daycare during operational hours. Hopefully during this time it will also allow me to speak with my child’s potential teacher and see the classroom as well. Upon my scheduled visit to the daycare facility I will make notes of things that I may want ask while I am there. Once I arrive for my visit I will look at the physical setting of the daycare facility. I will look at the building’s exterior and its landscape to see if it’s being up kept. If I am within sight of the playground, I would look to see if this area is clean as well. I would take observation on the safety on the outside, looking to make sure all gates are secure so that kids or...
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...needs of your body. Health care professionals like registered dietitians, nurse and physicians are trained to review and assess many different parameters to assess a persons nutritional status. They do this through the use of medical tests and other tools that provide dietary information. Nutritional status is the balance between the intake of nutrients by an organism and the expenditure of these in the process of growth, reproduction, and health maintenance. Because this process in highly complex and quite individualized, nutritional status assessment can be directed at a wide variety of aspects of nurtures. These ranges from nutrient levels in the body, to the products of their metabolism, and to the functional processes they regulate. Nutritional status can be measured for individuals as well as for populations. http://www.answers.com/topic/assessment-of-nutritional-status#ixzz1zFO5MZFB/06-30-12 In children, growth charts have been developed to allow researches and clinicians to assess weight-and-height-for-age. For children, low height-for-age considered stunting, while low weight-for-height indicates wasting. Accurate measurement of individual nutritional status is required in clinical practice. Population measures are more important in research. They can be used to describe nutritional status of the group, to identify populations or population segments at risk for nutrition-related health consequences, and to...
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