47-260  Human Development I

Resource Links

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Test preparation

• Fabes and Martin Online Resources:  Chapter Outlines, Self tests, study flash cards, and useful links for each chapter.  Note:  Quizzes are required, but I will not check your quiz grades.  Consult the schedule for information on when to submit documentation of your completed quiz. Documentation needs to be e-mailed to TA by date indicated (More info to follow)

• See also General Academic Resources and posted study guides.

Research and debate preparation

• Suggestions for writing and APA style  Materials from the Research III course on APA writing style

• Suggestions for evaluating internet research tools and sites  Materials from Research III providing some guidelines and advice on assessing internet sites.

Prenatal development

• The Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group provides information and support for AIS and other similar conditions.  See especially the AIS Fact Sheet

• Video animation of early prenatal development on the Discovery Channel website (watch out for annoying pop ups)

• NOVA Online: Life's Greatest Miracle The companion Web site to the NOVA program Life's Greatest Miracle.  Those users interested mainly in the science of human development will enjoy How Cells Divide and How Sex is Determined. Those more interested in learning about pregnancy can read journal entries from an expectant mother or learn about various screening techniques used to assess the health of an unborn baby.

Infancy

• The Brain Connection [Flash, Shockwave]  The Scientific Learning Corporation maintains the Brain Connection, a Web site "dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn." This site contains descriptions, pictures, animations, puzzles, quizzes on the human brain.

          Articles from Nature Science Update:

• Video games boost visual skills  

• Marijuanna alters embryonic brain  

• Aneasthetics & baby brains    

• Brain imaging explained  

• Functional brain development

• Principles of human growth and development.  One page summary of basic maturational principles from Virginia Tech Extension

Early Childhood

• Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence:  Arcus (1998) Temperament.  This link takes you to an entry on Temperament and to a site from which you can search this encyclopedia and other Gale academic and reference publications for full text.

• Gale  Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence:  Steinberg (1998) Parent-Child Relationships.  This link takes you to an entry on Parenting across infancy and childhood. 

• Physical growth and development during early childhood.  Links to Laura Berk's chapter summary of her Allyn and Bacon text on development across the lifespan.

• Developmental Milestones.  University of Michigan resource pages on indices of normal growth and development across childhood; links to American Academy of Pediatrics

Adolescence

• Frontline on neuroanatomical changes in the adolescent brain

History

• History:  Outline

Cognitive Development

• Cognitive Development   

• Constructivism  

• Piaget  

Cognition and Culture

• Vygotsky  

• Sociocultural Theory

• Bronfenbrenner's model (p. 5)

Language Development

• ASHA:  Language & Literacy

• Language Development in Children who are Deaf

Social Development:  Family

• Parenting Styles  

• Diana Baumrind  

• Attachment  

• Mary Ainsworth

Social Development: Peers

• Social Competency, What works

• KidsHelp Line: Peers

Individual Differences:  Temperament & Disability

• New faces light up shy brains  

• Temperament

• ADHD & Peer relationships

School practices 

• Mosteller:  Class size

• State testing accommodations

• NCEO Accommodations resources

• Students with disabilities

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