Read Chapter 8: Physical Development, Wellness, and Creative Movement in your course text.
Read the following sections of the Early Childhood and Child Development Lesson Plan Handbook download:
Materials
Introduction
Lesson Development
Differentiation
Assessment/Guided Practice
Closure
Develop a concept map for your unit that incorporates at least three ideas related to your theme for each of the
following areas: creative arts, fine motor skills and gross motor skills. Use Figure 6.5 from the course text as a
guide. You may find the “Smart Art” tool in Microsoft Word helpful for creating your concept map.
Describe the theme of unit, including a rationale for how the unit uses a developmentally appropriate approach
to meeting early learning and/or academic standards for the classroom you choose from the ECD 315 Week 2:
Case Study Interaction (Links to an external site.). Refer back to your Week Two Discussion: Developmentally
Appropriate Curriculum for support.
Develop the creative arts lesson you began in your Week Two Discussion: Creating Learning Objectives. You
must use the ECE/CD Lesson Plan Template. (Links to an external site.)
Using the