To help educate families and fellow early childhood professionals, create a flyer or infographic on the importance of and strategies to support healthy brain development for children birth to age 3.

Step One – Research and Key Findings

• Conduct research (using course resources, library, and credible internet research) on the following influences on brain development:
• Culture and environmental factors
• Early risk factors for infant and toddler
• Importance of experiences to brain development
• Determine key findings to incorporate into your flyer or infographic.

Step Two – Create a flyer or infographic

• Describe 5 strategies that can be implemented to support healthy brain development and early learning for children from birth to age 3. Be sure to include at least one strategy for each of the influences above.
• Provide 3 resources, from your research, on supporting healthy brain development that could be shared with families. Include a brief explanation of how they could be used to educate families and needed identifying information for access (ex: title, author, and link).
• Uses professional language, attribution for the three credible resources provided, accurate spelling, and grammar in the flyer or infographic. APA format for the references is not required but always encouraged.

Submit:

• Infographic or flyer
• Reference page with incorporated resources (APA format preferred for this assignment but not yet required)

***RUBRIC***

Key Findings

40% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Exemplary identification of the key findings from research on brain development with comprehensive supporting details on the cultural, environmental, and early risk factors with thorough example(s) of the impact to infants and toddlers brain development.

Strategies

40% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Exemplary description of 5 strategies with comprehensive example(s) aligned to how they support healthy brain development and early learning.

Resources

13% of total grade

Mastery: Advanced or exceeds achievement

Exemplary explanation of the 3 to 5 resources provided for supporting healthy brain with comprehensive supporting details on how they could be used to educate families (must include at least 1 local resource).