Gross Motor
Which gender outperforms the other?
What is boys
What tends to be large at first but with practice becomes legible and gradually decreases in size?
What is hand writing?
Brain growth and experience help improve what skill?
What is motor skills
What are the ages of children in middle to late childhood development?
What is 6-11 years?
The ability to visually coordinate received information through the eyes to the hands has strongly increased. What is this called?
What is hand-eye coordination?
Use this material that is soft, shapeable, and squishy to help build fine motor skills by shaping or rolling. What is it called?
What is playdough?
Between the ages of 10 and 12 what becomes more developed that shows improvements in logic, planning and memory.
What is the frontal lobe?
Pounds a child will gain in a year.
What is 5-7 pounds?
If a child walks on their toes all the time, this is a concern. It would be called...
What is a red flag?
Being able to create a person with six parts. A child is showing an increase in what skill?
What is drawing skills?
The ability to pay attention is improved due to what maturing in the brain?
What is prefrontal cortex?
Inches a child will grow in a year
What is 2-3 inches?
Children build up the ability to play sports or active games for longer periods of time before being winded. This is called?
What is endurance?
Using sewing techniques for younger children can help as children get older and learn to tie what on their own.
What is tying shoes?
From ages 6-12, the nerve cells connect sensory, motor and intellectual functioning become almost completely.
What is myelinated?
Mean age for growth spurt in girls
What can a child ride without the assistance of wheels?
What is a bicycle?
If these skills are lacking, what two professionals can help build up fine motor skills?
What is occupational and physical therapists?
Children reach the concrete operations stage by age 7. Neural connections have developed thus changing a child's thinking from egocentric to what?
What is concrete and systematic way of thinking?
Mean age for growth spurt in boys.
What is 11?