When teaching concepts that involve sequencing or chronological order in child development, I like to utilize an adaptation of Eduprotocols teaching strategy. In this Child Development Sketch & Tell Activities post, you’ll find several activities using a common resource and  template to help guide your students making learning more engaging and colorful!

Teacher Notes

• These templates are designed to be printed off on white paper and having students add the required information using colored markers or pencils.
• The resources needed to complete each Sketch & Tell activity can be printed out for students to read at their seats while they complete the sequencing activities or you can link the resource in a learning management system allowing students to access the information digitally as they fill in the template.
• Templates can be displayed on a bulletin board after discussion and/or grading.
• For the Childhood Milestones Timeline, be sensitive to the fact that some students may not have this childhood information. If that happens, let them interview someone else such as another family member, teacher or staff member and use their childhood information in place of their own.

Materials

• iPads or Laptops (optional)
• Colored Markers or
• Colored Pencils

Activities

• In the first Sketch & Tell, titled, Baby Size Comparisons, students use the provided web-link to access information to help them understand the developmental stages of a baby during pregnancy by creating sketches of the fruit or object that represents the baby’s size for each month.
• In the second Sketch & Tell, titled, Labor Stages & Cervical Dilations, students use the provided web-link to access information to help them learn about each stage of labor, including what happens and the size of the cervix (dilation).
• In the third Sketch & Tell, titled, Childhood Milestones, students take a trip down memory lane and talk with family members or check out their baby book to learn about the important “first” milestones of their childhood from the day they were born to the first day of kindergarten!  Examples: birth, Gotcha day, first word, first tooth, first haircut, etc

Attachments

• Baby Size Comparisons–Sketch & Tell
• Labor Stages & Cervical Dilations–Sketch & Tell
• Childhood Milestones Timeline–Sketch & Tell