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CHD 206 Children's Health and Safety Article Summary Assignment -

This assignment is the Nutrition article summary.

NAEYC Standard Met: This assignment meets the following National Association for the Education (NAEYC) of Young Children Professional Preparation Standard:

STANDARD 5. Using Content Knowledge to Build Meaningful Curriculum

The purpose of the Research Paper Assignment: Standard 5 states that early childhood candidates "know the essential concepts, inquiry tools and structure of content areas including academic subjects, and can identify resources to deepen their understanding. Candidates use their own knowledge and other resources to design, implement, and evaluate meaningful, challenging curriculum that promotes comprehensive developmental and learning outcomes for every young child.

Assignment Instructions: For this assignment, you will summarize an article related to one of the topics listed below.

1. Health Summary 1

- The Effects of Poverty on Young Children's Health

- Promoting good health practices to impoverished young children and their families (physical and social/emotional)

- Importance of children's health records and immunizations

- Daily health checklist for young children

- Childhood illnesses and management

2. Safety Summary Article

- Indoor and Outdoor Classroom Safety for Young Children

- Promoting safe physical environments (indoors and outdoors) for young children.

- Importance of utilizing a safety checklist (indoors and outdoors)

- Accident prevention practices (and reporting accidents in necessary)

- Abuse and neglect of young children

- Safe toy and equipment storage

3. Nutrition

- Nutrition for Young Children

- Promoting healthy nutrition for children ages 2-5-years old

- Following USDA or MyPlate.com to provide healthy nutrition

- Menu planning (breakfast, lunch, and one snack)

- Safety practices (during meals, food preparation, storage, etc.)

Tips on Summarizing - Use your own words. Include the key relevant elements of the original and keep it to at least one page. Do not include your interpretation/analysis within the summary - make a clear distinction between your thoughts and the authors. Think of it as you are giving information to someone who has not read the article. Always include a citation or reference of the author, article title and date of publication. Submit a title page with the article summary.