CHILD
DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT
Most children say their first words around this age.
What is about 1 year old?
This is the average length of a full-term pregnancy.
What is about 40 weeks?
This Western Mass city is known as the “City of Firsts” and is home to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
What is Springfield?
This playground game often involves jumping, counting, and chalk on the ground.
What is hopscotch?
Before smartphones, kids used this device attached to a wall to call friends.
What is a landline phone?
This stage typically includes learning to walk and improved motor skills.
What is toddlerhood?
This trimester is when most major organs begin to form.
What is the first trimester?
This is the highest natural point in Massachusetts, located in the Berkshires.
What is Mount Greylock?
This Dr. Seuss book reminds readers that “you’re off to great places.”
What is Oh, the Places You’ll Go!?
This handheld toy with a screen was popular in the 1990s and required feeding a digital pet.
What is a Tamagotchi?
According to Jean Piaget, this stage focuses on concrete thinking.
What is the concrete operational stage?
This structure connects the fetus to the mother for nutrients and oxygen.
What is the placenta?
This now-closed U.S. Army site in Springfield played a major role in the development of American firearms.
What is the Springfield Armory?
These small wheels help children learn to ride a bike before balancing on their own.
What are training wheels?
This classic board game that shares its name with a common ailment caused by stress?
What is Headache
This skill involves understanding others’ thoughts and feelings.
What is empathy (or theory of mind)?
Around this week, a fetus can often respond to sound.
What is about 24 weeks?
This president gave a famous campaign speech in Springfield in 1912 before being shot later that day.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This common childhood fear is often linked to bedtime and imaginary creatures.
What is fear of the dark?
This Candy Land location is made entirely of chocolate.
What is Chocolate Mountain?
This developmental theory emphasizes social interaction and culture in learning.
What is Lev Vygotsky’s theory?
This period of development includes the greatest risk from harmful substances.
What is the embryonic period?
This Berkshire town hosts a world-famous summer music festival founded in 1937.
What is Tanglewood (in Lenox)?
This childhood milestone often happens around age 6 or 7 and involves losing something for the first time.
What is losing a baby tooth?
Candy Land was originally created to help children cope with this serious illness while hospitalized.
What is polio?