Bachelors Degree - Early Care and Education

Summer 2023 Course Information
Health, Safety, and Nutrition

Course Description
This course examines important elements for planning, promoting and maintaining healthy and safe learning/care environments. It incorporates topics of understanding childhood illnesses, healthy lifestyles, first aid, and care providers maintaining their own health. Course content also includes maintaining safe relationships with others and identifying and reporting abuse, neglect, and exploitation of children. Additional content is exploration of nutrients for life and feeding, food preparation and food safety, food allergies and intolerances, and appropriate feeding practices.
Contacts
Instructor

Mary Bowne
Office: 605-688-5989
mary.bowne@sdstate.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.


Textbooks

Health, safety, and nutrition for the young child
Marotz, L.
Edition: 2020, 10th ed.
Publisher: Cengage Learning


Course Access
 
Your username and password for D2L will be the same when you first log in. For example, if your name is MaryJo McCullough, then your username will be MaryJo.McCullough and your password will be MaryJo.McCullough. Usernames and passwords are case sensitive and you will be required to change your password once you have logged in.
 
If you have trouble completing any of the steps above, forget your password, or have any questions, please contact the SDState Support Desk at 605-688-6776 for assistance.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.

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