Back to Basics: Teaching Body Parts, Senses, and Emotions

If you are employed in a state that uses a registry to track professional development hours, you will be able to provide your registry ID (Stars, MOPID, Registry or other ECE ID#) after you have completed the quiz for the course. If you pass the quiz we will report your course completion to the state registry using the registry ID that you provide.

Explore foundational concepts that help children develop an understanding of their bodies, senses, and emotions. Designed for early childhood professionals working with children from infancy through school age, this online, self-paced course provides practical strategies for teaching body awareness, the senses, emotional identification, and sensory processing concepts through developmentally appropriate activities. Participants will gain knowledge and techniques to support children’s physical, social-emotional, and cognitive development across all age groups. Course length – 2.0 hours.

The course will help answer the following questions:

• How can I begin to teach body parts to infants?

• Can I still teach body parts to school-age children?

• How many senses are there?

• How can I teach the basics of the senses to children?

• What is sensory processing disorder?

• Why is it important for children to be able to identify their emotions?

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe age-appropriate strategies for teaching children about body parts from infancy through school age with 90% accuracy on the course assessment.

• Identify the body’s sensory systems, including the traditional five senses and additional sensory systems, and explain their roles in child development.

• Explain the characteristics of Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and identify at least three indicators that may affect a child’s participation in everyday activities.

• Demonstrate at least four developmentally appropriate strategies for teaching children about their senses through everyday experiences and play.

• Recognize the importance of emotional identification by selecting strategies that help children recognize, express, and regulate their emotions in classroom settings with 80% accuracy on a scenario-based assessment.