Feeding Animals - Kickstarter Style Video

Physical Object basically complete

Yesterday we filmed for the kickstarter video. A suitable box still needs to be found for packaging.
ALSO I reminder for everyone to make sure you have done your individual design journal!

Persona Creator

http://usabilitytools.com/persona/ a good website to create persona.

New thought of boardgame

EVERYONE PLEASE READ.
Yang and I have been talking and we have an idea that will be easier, quicker, just as affective.
Basically instead of using magnets. We have 3 boards with Velcro. Each food also has Velcro. The way the players determine if they are correct or not is by colour. Each player has a specific colour for all their food. When they throw it, it can be easily seen who threw what where and then right/wrong given etc. eg. Player A has a red banana, carrot etc and player B has a blue etcetc. So when they stick on the board we can see where everyone's things were thrown. We believe this is far easier while also still being effective for this age. Thoughts?

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Motor Skill Performance and Physical Activity in Preschool Children http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1038/oby.2008.214/full

Talking about... toys and accidents

http://www.capt.org.uk/resources/talking-about-toys-and-accidents

BBC News - Should parents still allow children to play with toy guns?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kJcd-N0Cx4

Children speaking about the importance of play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sby38BbLZuY

Physical development in babies and children

http://www.kidspot.com.au/Development-Development-Physical-development-in-babies-and-children+5367+553+article.htm

How Physical Activity Benefit’s A Child’s Mental Development

http://www.howtolearn.com/2013/05/how-physical-activity-benefits-a-childs-mental-development/

Children – much more interested in animals than toys

http://www.zmescience.com/science/psychology-science/children-toys-07022013/

How do I keep my child interested in her toys?

http://giftedkids.about.com/od/fa2/f/challenge_one.ht

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 Early learning frameworks
http://docs.education.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/analysis_of_curriculumlearning_frameworks_for_the_early_years_birth_to_age_8.pdf

Relation between physical and mental development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIYI8VU-hb0

Why the first 5 years are so important
http://www.firstfiveyears.com.au/get-informed.html


Physical development from babies to children
http://www.kidspot.com.au/Development-Development-Physical-development-in-babies-and-children+5367+553+article.htm

Defining "Play"
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/every_child_magazine/every_child_index/why_play-based_learning.html

Fostering Physical Development in early childhood.
https://training.gov.au/TrainingComponentFiles/CHC08/CHCFC502A_R1.pdf

Good resource that details physical activity requirements for kids.
http://www.goodforkids.nsw.gov.au/sitefiles/GoodForKids/documents/Australias_Physical_Activity_Recommendations_for_Children.pdf

Why children should be active:
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Children_getting_them_active?open

Early Years Swimming:
This paper details demographics of children who are learning to swim at a very early age including defining learning quantities and intended uses.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/386075/swim-background-paper.pdf

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Action Words, Part 1 (Classroom Physical Activity Breaks)

 WisconsinDPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF9qrV7P8tk, 2011

This video provides useful activities that develop basic gross motor skills as well as helping the children with reading and pronunciation.

 

Pediatric Physical Therapy - Gross and Fine Motor Skill Development

 Margret Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js62IcXgYcI , 2009

Another video that allows the children to develop their gross motor skills in a fun and exciting game.

Gross Motor Skills: Cones Sideways Cognitive Motor Skills Activities to Develop Fine Motor Skills

 Motor Skill Learning,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgIPX0UUDc , 2012

This is video shows how basic motor skills can be pushed the limit in order for children to be pushed to the next level and become sportsmen.

Early Childhood Computer Experience and Cognitive and Motor Development

Xiaoming Li, PhD, Melissa S. Atkins, PhD

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/113/6/1715.short , 2004

A report on how factors in everyday life can both negatively and positively affect the gross motor skill development in children. This article contains a lot of statistics and data that was collected by adequate researchers.

 Why Is it Important to Develop Gross Motor Skills in Preschool Children?

Becky Swain , Demand Media http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/important-develop-gross-motor-skills-preschool-children-4262.html  2014

This article emphasises that the importance of developing gross motor skills from an early age. The benefits are presented and include: promotes a healthy lifestyle and promotes psychological health.

Fine Motor Development and early school performance

http://www.fingergym.info/downloads/Finemotordevpp1-4.pdf , 2014

This is a brief article outline what are gross motor skills and how they affect everyday life.

 

  

Cognitive development in babies and children,  

http://www.kidspot.com.au/discoverycentre/Joy-of-discovery-Development-Cognitive-development-in-babies-and-children+5357+553+article.htm Kidspot team, 2014       

This article provides information as to when a childs skills are developing so that the parent is informed at the correct time period to start developing these skills.

Developing gross motor skills,

Queensland Government  http://deta.qld.gov.au/earlychildhood/pdfs/tip-sheets/developing-gross-motor-skills.pdf  , 2012

This page outlines a game that is useful in developing basic gross motor skills.