Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children

A practical, comprehensive look at the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through 8 years of age. This practical, comprehensive text helps students understand the interrelationships among nutrition, health, and safety, and gives them strategies to share their knowledge with children and their families. Covering the full range of childhood from birth into school age, it includes concrete, common in-text examples, case scenarios, and questions that promote thinking about professional situations students will face in their own classrooms and teaching situations, while providing a glimpse into the everyday contemporary classroom environment. The new edition features a stronger focus on wellness that prepares students to teach the diverse populations of young children in family child care, child care centers, preschools, and elementary settings by providing everything needed to ensure students understand wellness concepts, know how to apply wellness concepts, and know how to teach wellness concepts to children. More accessible, relevant, and useful to students than ever, Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children gives early childhood teachers what they need to help all children attain wellness and be ready for success in school.   Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eTextThe Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features: Embedded videos. Enrich the text experience by allowing readers to see key concepts illustrated by real teachers in real classrooms. Check Your Understanding Quizzes. Embedded assessments with feedback, including multiple-choice assessments at the end of each major heading, allow students to continually assess their understanding of chapter content and concepts. End of Chapter Self-Check Quizzes. Multiple-choice format Chapter Quizzes with objective feedback help students gauge their understanding of the fundamental concepts covered in each chapter. One question aligns to each of the chapters Leaning Outcomes and feedback helps reinforce understanding.