Lesson 845 of 1524
Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood (Ages 3 to 6)
A healthy balanced diet is essential to optimal growth.
Practice this chapterA healthy balanced diet is essential to optimal growth. After rapid growth during infancy, physical growth in early childhood slows and becomes relatively consistent.
Average height and weight differences between girls and boys are only minor in early childhood. The brain continues to grow at a rapid pace, due to overproduction of synapses as well as stimulation and increased myelination
healthy balanced diet — essential to optimal growth. scaffolding — process of providing temporary learning support when tasks are just outside a person’s range of ability. theory of mind — awareness that our beliefs and perspectives are different from other people’s. food desert — geographic area where fresh food is not readily available.
Worked example
What does “healthy balanced diet” mean in Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood (Ages 3 to 6)?
- 1Use the wording this chapter gives for healthy balanced diet.
- 2The book says: essential to optimal growth.
- 3Do not use the meaning of scaffolding. That term means process of providing temporary learning support when tasks are just outside a person’s range of ability.
Result: essential to optimal growth
Why. That is the meaning this chapter gives for healthy balanced diet.
Do not swap healthy balanced diet and scaffolding. healthy balanced diet means essential to optimal growth. scaffolding means process of providing temporary learning support when tasks are just outside a person’s range of ability.
Practice margin
This chapter
A fresh set from this chapter only. Choose 10 or 20. Multiple choice and fill-in, with no repeat inside the set.