Between ages 6 and 12 children's bodies grow and mature in significant ways. They gain body awareness and develop new gross and find motor skills. This is also a pivotal stage where injury, illness, and the increase of childhood obesity are common.

This detailed, well-organized program presents educator insights, pertinent vocabulary, statistics, and classroom strategies for fostering healthy physical development.

Learn:

• Ways to encourage healthy physical development.
• Gross and fine motor milestones.
• How technology affects physical growth.
• Why childhood obesity and asthma are on the rise.
• Why accidental injuries are of serious concern at this stage.
• The importance of nutrition and the proper amount of sleep.
• Physical challenges that some children have.

22 minutes.

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