Childhood Development & Health

Review the prompt: Only answer questions 2-4. Attached are the articles needed to answer the questions.

1. What is your name? What is your major (if you are a student-at-large, tell us what you are working towards)? And when you were an emerging adolescent, ages 10-14, where were you living?

2. Download this document, Ages & Stages of the School-Age Child. Read pages 10-14. In reading about the developmental characteristics (including physical, social and emotional, intellectual/cognitive), what and behavior traits of 10-14-year-olds, what comes to mind about your own emerging adolescence? Share a memory from your own experiences. It can happy, awkward, sad, silly….it’s up to you!

3. Download this document, The Teen Years Explained: A Guide to Healthy Adolescent Development, Chapter 7 Profiles of Development. Select one of the profiles on 79-85 and respond to the two prompts below.