Author: Sanders Draper

Home Learning Booklet

Child Development Year 10 & 11

September 2014

All home learning tasks need to be completed and handed to Ms Robson
If you have any questions while completing the tasks at home please email krobson@sandersscholl.org.uk
There is a minimum expectation that each Home Learning takes between 45 -60 minutes.

Home Learning Task One

Carry out a comparative investigation into the packaging and labelling of food for young children. Look at the packaging and labelling on the following items:
A jar of baby food
A packet of dried baby food
A children's yoghurt or dessert
A cook-chill meal for a toddler
Using the information on the packaging, compare the following:
The system of nutritional labelling
Type of packaging material
Ingredients and additives in the food
Symbols and logos
Decide which of the products seem to be the most healthy, the easiest to understand, the most environmentally friendly, the most eye catching and explain why.
Present your findings as a report

A comparative investigation requires you to collect data from various avenues so that you can compare them to each other.

Home Learning Task Two

Create a fact sheet for new parents on the benefits of breast feeding.
The sheet will need to include evidence as to why breast feeding may be the best option for newborn babies and hints and tips for mum.
Your fact sheet must contain relevant information and images.

WHAT IS A FACT SHEET?
A fact sheet is a single sheet of paper listing important facts about the issue. Fact sheets can be laid out just about any way you'd like as long as they list the main facts you want to include. You can do one fact sheet with basic information, or you can do a whole series of them.

Home Learning Task Three

Carry out survey of parents regarding when and how they begun weaning their child
Your survey needs to research the following areas:
Age that the parent began weaning the child
How long weaning took
Did they encounter any problems
Where they nervous about introducing solid food in their Childs diet
Did they prepare their own food or buy ready made food
At what age was the child completely weaned

What is a survey?
A survey is a way to gather information from various sources. It must include a variety of questions and be used across a wide range of people.

Home Learning Task Four

It has been suggested that one in five pre school children are overweight or obese.
Discuss with reasons why children today may be overweight, what parents could do to improve theirs child's health and diet and government schemes that have been introduced to try to improve the diet and health of children.
Your findings need to be presented as a report of no less than 500 words.

Home Learning Task Five

Find out about the types of foods that children will not be able to eat because of their beliefs as members of different religious groups and cultures.
Present your findings as a report of no more than 500 words.

Home Learning Task Six

Create a guidance sheet for a parent detailing a bath time routine. Include information on areas of development and how these can be aided by bath time. You may also discuss bath toys and how these aid development.

Key Words used in this Unit

Nutrition
Hygiene
Additives
Organic
Preservatives
Emulsifiers
Obesity
Colostrums
Fore milk
Hind milk
Sterilise
Weaning
Culture
Lacto ovo vegetarian
Obesity
Diabetes
Coeliac
Allergy
Hyperactivity
Formula