Mrs Gerard's ECE Classroom

Are you interested in getting your Bitmoji classroom started? This product contains 12 classroom templates themed to fit all 12 months of the year! You will be getting google slides containing the following: - Editable January Classroom Template - Non-Editable January Classroom Template - Editable February Classroom Template - Non-Editable February Classroom Template - Editable March Classroom Template - Non-Editable April Classroom Template - Editable April Classroom Template - Editable May Cla

This product includes the assignments for a unit on the stages of play. This unit is a part of my second level Early Childhood Education course. I use the Google Slide presentation to introduce the stages of play. Students can follow along with the Google Doc notes. After some practice observing children playing and identifying the different stages of play, students complete the Paper Doll Project as an assessment. Another assessment option is the Stages of Play Quiz. This product includes: Goog

I use this product in my Child Psychology class after the students learn about Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development Stage Theory. This assignment asks students to use what they have learned about Erikson's 8 Stages and find song lyrics, poetry or another form of art that represents the themes of that each stage. This assignment includes an example assignment for the students to use as a guide as they find their own art pieces to represent the psychological themes and outcomes of e

BUY THIS BUNDLE AND SAVE! These documents were created for middle or high school students to use as a viewing guide when watching BABIES the Netflix Docuseries. There are seven episodes in this docuseries (Love, Food, Crawling, First Words, Sleep, First Steps, and What Babies Know). Each 3-page handout includes an essential question, a structure and guided notes, and space for a summary (answering the essential question at the end) with optional sentence frames. I use this in class or it could

This survey was created to help students identify their personal values. There are 11 sections in this survey, each representing a different core value. Students will read each of the statements and mark it with a tally if they identify with it. At the end of the 11 sections, the students will calculate their results and fill in a bar graph to visually represent their higher and lower ranked values. The 11 core values in this survey are: HonestyPersonal ResponsibilityTolerance & RespectWork Et

This product is a Google Slide presentation that I use for my Early Childhood Education students when we learn how to take formal observations of young children. Within this presentation, the students will learn: What can we learn through observing young children?Types of observations (formal and informal)How to take a running record observationHow to be objective in observationsHow to complete a formal write-up (technical writing piece) The Google Slide presentation is 27 slides and walks stud

This activity is an assignment I give my Early Childhood Education students in our Children and Families course. Students use these guided questions to take notes on the following video (available on Youtube - 37 minutes long) Caring for Your Newborn Video LinkThis is a great product if you are teaching in a distance learning environment. This product includes a Google Doc with guided questions for students to follow along with as they watch the video. The video covers the following concepts:

This document was created for middle or high school students to use as a viewing guide when watching BABIES the Netflix Docuseries (Episode 4: FIRST WORDS). In this episode, experts examine the rhythm and flow of language and explore how babies break down linguistic beats before they know how to speak. The 3-page handout includes an essential question, a structure and guided notes, and space for a summary (answering the essential question at the end) with optional sentence frames. I would use t

This BUNDLE product contains three different pieces of my unit on Temperament. In this unit, students learn about temperamental traits in young children. They reflect on their own temperamental traits and learn how to represent their own temperament fingerprint visually. They will learn how to recognize these traits in children by reading case studies of young children and identifying traits. This BUNDLE product includes the following activities:Temperament in Early Childhood Lecture Slides & No

This document was created for middle or high school students to use as a viewing guide when watching BABIES the Netflix Docuseries (Episode 7: WHAT BABIES KNOW). In this episode, experts challenge the notion of a blank slate, 3 studies explore how babies are born with expectations about everyday life. The 4-page handout includes an essential question, a structure and guided notes, and space for a summary (answering the essential question at the end) with optional sentence frames. I would use thi

This is a 3-page worksheet that follows along with the YouTube video called The Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life. This video is from the YouTube channel Sprouts. They have many educational videos that breakdown big concepts. This video discusses the effects of early childhood experiences on the young child's brain, and how those experiences with caregivers can impact their lives long-term. In the video, there are really easy to understand examples of the four attachment patterns, h

This BUNDLE contains the following lessons and activities: 46 Emotional Intelligence Skills Reflection & Goal Setting Lesson (Includes presentations and student worksheets)Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace Article Response & Mock InterviewEmotional Intelligence Student Reflection PacketThis bundle has MANY lesson and activity options for any teacher who is looking for integrating some emotional intelligence lessons into their classroom!

This 3-page document is the TEACHER KEY for The Attachment Theory YouTube Video Worksheet. This is a worksheet that was made to follow along with this YouTube video about Attachment Theory. This key is filled in with information from the video.

These guided video notes were created to follow along with the video called "The Period of Purple Crying", which can be found on YouTube. This video discusses The Period of Purple Crying (what caregivers can expect from an infant in the first year of life), Shaken Baby Syndrome, and strategies and tools for new parents and caregivers to cope with the crying. The notes follow along with the video and ask students to fill in a table with information about each letter in PURPLE, and asks them to

This product is a quick and easy Google Slide lecture presentation about the Zone of Proximal Development. I usually present this after students read about Lev Vygotsky and we discuss his main theories. This product includes:1 Google Slide Presentation introducing and demonstrating the Zone of Proximal Development in early childhood. (12 slides)

This document is the KEY for the guided notes assignment for BABIES: Episode one (LOVE). This includes notes that answer the guided questions with information given in the film.

This document was created for middle or high school students to use as a viewing guide when watching BABIES the Netflix Docuseries (Episode 6: FIRST STEPS). In this episode, scientists venture into the ways that walking changes a baby's world and unveil findings on neonatal reflexes, skeletal development and talking. The 3-page handout includes an essential question, a structure and guided notes, and space for a summary (answering the essential question at the end) with optional sentence frames.

With this product you will receive the following:Article Response Guided Reading Notes for Emotional Intelligence in the WorkplaceTeacher KEY for the Guided Reading NotesEmotional Intelligence Interview ChecklistThis article discusses what emotional intelligence competencies are and how those competences impact employees in the workplace. The guided reading notes and response to this article ask students to identify those competencies. Students are then asked to create potential interview questi

I created this assignment for my high school students when we switched to distance learning. I quickly realized that my students lacked the skills to write a professional email. My inbox was flooded with emails written completely in the subject line, emails without a subject at all, emails with three words in them, emails that were very long and seemed to have no question in them, and emails that seemed hostile. I realized that these issues were not the fault of the students. The email world i

This document is created for middle or high school students to use as a viewing guide when watching The Beginning of Life, the Netflix Docuseries (Episode 1: FANTASTIC BABY). In this episode, we discover that an infant is a little scientist built to learn, with no preconceived notions of the world. The human interactions he or she takes in are essential. The 3-page handout includes an essential question, a structure and guided notes, and space for a summary (answering the essential question at t