Title: Demonstrate strategies designed to teach children personal health, safety, and sanitation habits.
Course: Early Childhood, Education, and Services I (19153-I) > Section: Providing a Safe and Healthy Learning Environment

Demonstration should include

- appropriate eating practices
- U.S. Department of Agriculture MyPlate guidelines
- nutritious snacks, meals, and beverages
- instruction for children in maintaining health, safety, and sanitation
- universal precautions/infection control: bloodborne pathogens
- diapering and potty training guidelines and appropriate hand washing techniques.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- Whose primary responsibility is it to teach children health, safety, and sanitation habits?

Communication

- What strategies should be used to teach children good nutritional habits? What constitutes good nutrition?

Leadership

- How might specific strategies help and/or harm children?
- How can families be involved in teaching children health, safety, and sanitation habits?

Management

- How are universal precautions implemented in an early childhood learning environment?
- What resources and practices do early childhood professionals use to recognize symptoms of common childhood illnesses and diseases?