The Healthy and Active Child
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- On-campus: 24 hours Face to face Swinburne online - Nil
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
NilCorequisites
NilAims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Describe children's specific health-related conditions, illnesses and patterns of growth and their implications for children’s inclusion in early childhood services.
2. Articulate the significance of brain development in the early years, contributing factors and the implications for teaching.
3. Identify a range of contemporary health issues that affect children, including protective behaviours, obesity, exercise, body image and sex education.
4. Evaluate strategies for children to learn about health, nutrition, hygiene and keeping themselves safe.
5. Identify healthy and safe educational environments for children birth to eight years and challenge concepts of risk and reasonable risk-taking and how this affects development and learning.
6. Develop learning plans for physically active play (birth to eight years of age).
Courses with unit
BA-EDUEC2 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
DP-EDU Diploma of Education Studies
AB-EDU Associate Degree of Education
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
On campus
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
On-Campus Class | 2 | 6 | 12 |
Live Online Class | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Online Prescribed readings, online activities | 4 | 12 | 48 |
Unspecified Activities Independent study, readings, assignment preparation | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
TOTAL | 150 hours/12.5cp |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Prescribed readings, online activities | 6 | 12 | 72 |
Unspecified Activities Independent study, readings, assignment preparation | 6.5 | 12 | 78 |
TOTAL | 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Report | Individual | 50% | 1, 2, 3 |
Portfolio | Individual | 50% | 4, 5, 6 |
Content
• Children’s growth
• Stress and the impacts of cortisol on children’s growth and development
• Brain development and the neurosciences
• Childhood nutrition, first aid, hygiene, safety
• Health related policies, procedures and legal requirements
• The role of physically active play for health and wellbeing
• Challenging and creative educational environments
• Risk aversion and benefit assessment
• Outside play environments and risk
• Physical education and teaching children about health, safety and nutrition
• Contemporary health issues
• Natural play spaces, connections with nature and links to health
• Sharing information about children's health with children, families and communities
• Mandatory reporting
• Family violence
Study resources
- Reading materials.