1. Educational Curriculum: Physical & Social Domains

2. Review of Unit 6: Cognitive and Language Domains Review/ discuss effective ways to integrate cognitive and language domains into the curriculum. Include questioning and inquiry strategies.

3. Unit 7: A Holistic Approach Unit 7 examines the reasons why the physical domain and social domains are assigned prominent roles in curriculum development. These final two learning domains of the Children’s Comprehensive Curriculum model are thoughtfully examined in this holistic view of curriculum. LEARNING GOALS ARE: –Articulate the connections between physical activity and learning –Articulate the connections between social skills and learning –Create daily routines that support the physical domain. –Create daily routines that support the social domain.

4. Importance of Physical Activity Children benefit in many ways from regular physical activity (various references; pg. 364 text) Promotes changes in brain structure and function. Increases capacity for learning. Assists in refinement of perceptual abilities involving vision, balance, and tactile sensations. Builds the skeleton and promotes the maintenance of muscles. Leads to proficiency in skills basic for successful participation in games, dance, sports, and leisure activities. Improves aerobic fitness - muscle : endurance, power, strength; and feelings of wellness Contributes to social adjustment and positive mental health. Contributes to memory retention. Please share ideas for including physical activity in curriculum planning…

5. Let’s Add Motor Skills Fundamental motor skills impact all areas of development; requiring special attention/ compensation for handicaps/special needs:  Small (Fine) Motor: hand, fingers, toes, eye- hand, etc.  Large (Gross) Motor: arms, legs, etc.  Perceptual-Motor (sensory integration): balance, spatial, figure-ground, temporal, body, directional,.

6. Let’s Add Safety and Health Factors  Physical Fitness  Safety during Physical Fitness  Recognition of Abuse/ Neglect  Health Curriculum  Hand Washing  Food Selection  Medical Issues/ Care  CPR/ First Aid

7. Supporting the Physical Domain in Your Curriculum Discuss the following: How can early childhood professionals support physical fitness? Describe some ways to provide physical activities for special needs children? What will you need to do first?

8. The Last of the Domains: The Social Domain This domain encompasses four essential facets of children’s development and education: 1.Social Skills: children learning to interact with others (acquiring social skills) 2.Socialization: children learning the values, beliefs, customs, and rules of society (ability to understand the values and rules of society) 3.Social responsibility: children developing respect for individual differences and functioning as contributing members of the scope of their community (respect for differences and ability to contribute to society) 4.Social studies: children exploring people’s interactions in, and with social/ physical environment (studying how others interact with society and the physical environment).

9. Pro-social Behaviors Acts of kindness such as helping, sharing, sympathizing, rescuing, defending, cooperating, and comforting benefit all persons, the giver and the receivers. These behaviors impact the ability to and process of learning across all developmental areas.

10. In Diversity How one approaches diversity relates to attitude, knowledge, and experience (and recognition of skills and talents in others). Following is a list of considerations: Religion, race, language, ethnicity, interests, age, abilities, values, music, gender role, lifestyle, skin color, culture, child-rearing practices, economic class, social class, the arts, sports,etc. My favorite: what are your special skills and talents, or what area of diversity is most important to you personally?

11. The Importance of Friendships There are connections between forming strong positive friendships and cognitive/ social development. Share your knowledge on the following… Why are friends so important to cognitive development?

12. Pulling it Together: The Role of Social Studies within the Social Domain As children are engaged in social pursuits and exploring their immediate community; they are also sharpening their physical knowledge, intuitive knowledge, representational thinking, social-conventional knowledge, language, and critical thinking skills. –Culture –Time, continuity, and change –People, places, and environments –Individuals, groups, and institutions –Production, distribution, and consumption –Civic ideals and practices

13. Supporting the Social Domain in Your Classroom How you would support the social domain in your daily routine? –peaceful resolution of conflicts –delayed gratification –individual recognition/diversity - respect for the physical environment Identify an activity/ experience/ lesson to support the one of the skills named above.

14. Complete the Readings Participate in Discussion Attend Seminar Complete Graded Review To Do List

15. “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.” – Albert Einstein