Physical Development is the development of the body and can be characterised by both quantitative and qualitative changes. (McDevitt & Ormrod‚ 2010) The following is an evaluation of the physical developments of middle school children aged six to ten years. This essay approaches considerations for physical development and how they can be accommodated in the learning environment. To understand physical development it is important to look into motor development and its influences. How we can accommodate
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P2 – Factors that affect development. There are five main factors that affect a person’s development‚ they are: Genetics factors. Environmental factors. Socio-Economical factors. Life style factors. Biological factors. Genetic factors Each cell in the body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes‚ half from your mother‚ and half from your father. The chromosomes contain the genes you inherit from your parents. For example‚ for the gene that determines eye colour you may inherit a brown gene and a blue gene
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Timed Essay- NC4008-Physical Development- word count 2145 Question One- How can the term ‘physical development’ be defined? Physical development is the development of a child from a helpless newly born baby to an independent child through their overall physical growth and development of their ability to control individual parts of the body. Physical development has many aspects which put together lead to the progression of a child’s physical ability‚ including the development of the brain. During
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Physical and Social Factors that Influences Growth and Development Development is often divided into specific domains‚ such as gross motor‚ fine motor‚ language‚ cognition‚ and social/emotional growth. These designations are useful‚ but substantial overlap exists. Studies have established average ages at which specific milestones are reached‚ as well as ranges of normality. In a normal child‚ progress within the different domains varies‚ as in the toddler who walks late but speaks in sentences early
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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT The term "physical development of children" understand the dynamic process of growth (increase of length‚ mass‚ body parts) at different periods of childhood. On the physical development of children is influenced by many factors‚ which sometimes makes it extremely difficult to identify the reasons for its violation. The main criteria of physical development include weight and body length‚ head circumference and chest‚ the proportions of the body (physique‚ posture). Key figures
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Wk 1 DQs DQ 1 What factors affect an individual’s personality development? Which factor has the biggest effect? Why? Personality is an expression of an individual’s temperament‚ emotional state‚ values or beliefs‚ and goals or expectations. The specific answer to the question of what influences personality development depends on what theory of psychology a person believes is the most correct. How one would describe the process of personality development depends greatly on the framework a person
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A Double-Edged Sword: How Does Technology Impact Development? Children live in a world that is abundant with television‚ video games‚ iPads‚ computers‚ and cell phones. “Nearly every working and living place has computers‚ and over two-thirds of children in industrialized countries have a computer at home” (Rauterberg‚ 2004). Almost all the three-year-old children I interviewed at Williamsburg Campus Child Care reported that they watch TV every day. Many children use their parents’ computers and
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through many physical changes. Children’s physical development is the outcome of countless orderly changes (McDevitt & Ormrod; 2010). There are certain age groups where children’s development will rapidly occur and then begin to slow down. Over the course of middle childhood children tend to show slow but steady gains in both height and weight (McDevitt & Ormrod; 2010). Throughout this essay we will look at the motor development of children in the middle childhood phase‚ the benefits physical activity
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Assessment 1: Essay- Physical Development. Within the grades kindergarten to grade 2 and the ages between 4-7‚ an extensive amount of growth physically and physiologically takes place in a child. This goes hand in hand with children beginning primary school and the time in which their extensive educational years begin. For this time of their lives to be successful in them gaining physical and physiological growth‚ Children need to be encouraged and supported in improving further their gross motor
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types of factors which can affect the health and physical development of children‚ one of these factors is lifestyle. Lifestyle factors are the way in which we choose to live and the things that we can change‚ this includes drugs. Drugs affect lots of people’s lives. Even legal drugs can be dangerous when people become addicted to them. In day to day life we are all faced with situations such as stress and negative feelings‚ some parents tend to use drugs as a coping mechanism. This can affect the children’s
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