PART 1: NEWBORN TO 2 1⁄2 YRS (56 EVENTS/CHOICES)
For this section of the assignment, you will need to create your profile. This will include your gender and the gender of your partner, other demographic information, and some personality information. You will choose what you choose to include. You should know that what you enter will form the ‘genetic’ portion of your virtual child. To complete this portion of creating your child, the program will tell you the gender of your child and you will be able to give your virtual child a name.
You will start raising your child from zero (0) months. Some items will be questions that you answer or choices you make. Other items will be events that happen to you and your child. There are also videos throughout that you are recommended to watch to better understand the concepts associated with the choices and events.
To begin, you will be given information regarding the birth of your child. You can keep track of your events and choices as you work through or you can go back to see what you have chosen and what has happened. You cannot go back and change your responses. At 9 months, you will receive a report. Make sure to note whether or not your child’s development is at, above or below the typical or expected development of a child at this age. Use the three questions at the end of this time period to discuss your child’s development. You cannot go back to fill this in so make sure you do not skip it.
At 19-months you will be given a preschool assessment. Analyze your child’s development. Identify some of the suggestions in your report and identify age-appropriate ways to work on these suggestions. Answer the three questions to practice describing how your child has developed. At two-and-a-half years, you will get a report from an early childhood development specialist. Again, use the report to analyze your child’s progress and the three questions to discuss the theories that explain lifespan development.
At the end of this phase of your child’s development, you will need to record the key milestones that have affected your child’s development and analyze his or her progress. You will be marked on the following:
You will start raising your child from zero (0) months. Some items will be questions that you answer or choices you make. Other items will be events that happen to you and your child. There are also videos throughout that you are recommended to watch to better understand the concepts associated with the choices and events.
To begin, you will be given information regarding the birth of your child. You can keep track of your events and choices as you work through or you can go back to see what you have chosen and what has happened. You cannot go back and change your responses. At 9 months, you will receive a report. Make sure to note whether or not your child’s development is at, above or below the typical or expected development of a child at this age. Use the three questions at the end of this time period to discuss your child’s development. You cannot go back to fill this in so make sure you do not skip it.
At 19-months you will be given a preschool assessment. Analyze your child’s development. Identify some of the suggestions in your report and identify age-appropriate ways to work on these suggestions. Answer the three questions to practice describing how your child has developed. At two-and-a-half years, you will get a report from an early childhood development specialist. Again, use the report to analyze your child’s progress and the three questions to discuss the theories that explain lifespan development.
At the end of this phase of your child’s development, you will need to record the key milestones that have affected your child’s development and analyze his or her progress. You will be marked on the following:
- Creative presentation of child milestones
- Selection of key milestones
- Analysis of development based on the five dimensions of temperament and development across physical,
cognitive and social dimensions.
- Completion of the nine questions in the Virtual Child Program.