Health and Physical Education in Early Childhood

• Topics

  • Planning for Children's Health, Safety & physical education; Relevant Curriculum Documents; National Quality Standard: Quality Area 2
  • Early Years Learning Framework
  • Helping Children Stay Healthy and Happy. Maintaining strong mental health and well-being: resources for teachers and families
  • Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle; Parents as partners in children's health and well being; Personal and social skill development
  • Factors Affecting Children's Health; Including parents and families in children's health and well being
  • Factors Affecting Children's Health; Adapting learning programs for children with special needs, a multi-disciplinary approach to health
  • Food and Nutrition; Healthy eating. A school approach to healthy eating including children in decision making about food
  • Food and Nutrition; Food promotion
  • Safety Management and Duty of Care; Self-protective behaviours
  • Child safety; Abuse and Early Motor Skills Neglect, Mandatory reporting requirements, Professional learning for mandatory reporting
  • Introduction: Motor Skills, Child development review: physical skills, Overview: Fine and Gross motor skill development: birth- 8 years
  • Fundamental Motor Skills; assessment, planning to teach fine motor skills, Early intervention for fine motor skills
  • Gross Motor Skills: assessment, planning to teach gross motor skills, Design of Obstacle Courses, Circuits & Games
  • Body Management & Awareness
  • Planning for Children's Health, Safety & physical education
  • Creating Quality Environments and Duty of Care

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Discussion forum/Discussion Board
    • Online Quizzes/Tests
    • Online assignment submission
    • Standard Media

Entry Requirements

Equivalent Subjects

You cannot enrol in this unit if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-EDE282-Health and Physical Education in Early Childhood

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

CUR-EDC171

Others

You don't have to enrol in this subject if you have completed EDE105 Health, Child Protection and Physical Education (Birth-8 years) as they are considered equivalents.

Special requirements

No special requirements

This subject was previously known as EDE282 Health and Physical Education in Early Childhood.

This subject investigates health, and wellbeing factors related to the development and care of young children (birth - 6 years). This includes examining social and emotional, linguistic, and cognitive development of children from birth to 8 years. Mandatory health, safety and child protection policies are examined together with appropriate strategies that educators in early childhood settings can effectively implement to enhance the outcomes for young children. These strategies will not only help maintain a healthy early childhood environment, but will also improve outcomes for the whole community within an early childhood educational context. The subject also explores the characteristics of children's physical development and motor coordination and how educators can provide children with quality fundamental movement experiences.

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