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Final Project
Your community is opening a brand new community center.
Now that you are an expert in the field, you have been chosen to
lead a development team that will create a proposal for
interactive, fun, and educational programming activities that
will be provided for children and adolescents in this center
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Utilize problem-solving techniques in exploring developmental
issues, grounded in child development, in order to assess what
activities and items should be included in each program. Once
you have chosen these features, you will present your ideas to a
mock city council board (i.e. your instructor) with both a
written proposal describing the programming, as well as an
interactive presentation that will illustrate your ideas for
promoting continued learning throughout childhood and
adolescence.
You have been asked to propose programming for five different
age groups in the community center:
Infant (0-1 year)
Toddler (1-3 years)
Early Childhood (3-6 years)
Middle/Late Childhood (7-12 years)
Adolescence (13-18 years)
There are two parts to your final project; a written proposal
(Part A) and a visual presentation (Part B). In Part A, you will
be creating a written proposal in which you identify and
describe at least two weekly activities for each age group (for a
total of 10 activities) that address their developmental
pathways: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. All three
domains of development must be addressed within your classes
or activities. For example, you may have one activity which
enhances cognitive and psychosocial development and a second
activity which enhances physical development. In addition to
identifying these activities, you will demonstrate a foundational
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explaining your reasoning for choosing each activity, based on
your analysis of theory and current child development research.
Additionally, you will go “shopping” for at least one age-
appropriate game, toy, picture, or other “play” item to enhance
the chosen activities within each age group. Keep in mind that
this may include things like art, music, technology, or safety
gear as you deem fit. For each item that you recommend, your
written proposal will provide a link to a website from which the
item can be purchased by the city, as well as an explanation for
why the city should purchase the item informed by research and
theory.
The overall goal of the written proposal and visual presentation
is much like that of a grant proposal, in which a developer must
convince the city council that their new business or activity is
both cost-effective and beneficial to the community. You are
encouraged to be creative and persuasive in your proposal, but
remember that everything must be supported by the theories and
research covered in our class. Included in Part A is a
Written Proposal Template
, demonstrating what information should be included in your
written portion of the project. While you are expected to cite
facts and include a reference page in your proposal, these do not
need to be read out loud in your final visual presentation.
In addition to the written component of the assignment, Part B
will utilize a visual and audio/interactive screencast to share
your learning acquisition in child development with the
members of a mock city council (again, your instructor will be
acting as this council) in an interactive presentation which
visually and vocally presents the activities and products which
should be available for each age group. Design your community
center presentation as if you were guiding a visitor through each
activity. Your presentation will include a picture of each
activity (appropriately labeled), while you will utilize a screen
casting tool (such as screencast-o-matic.com) to provide the
voice-over description of the activity and item(s) to be
purchased for the activity. Below is a sample screencast

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presentation, demonstrating how your own presentation might
look and what you might say in your proposal. (Please note that
this is a sample only. No part of this video should be used in
your own assignment.)
Part A: Written Proposal
You will utilize the
PSY104 Written Proposal template
to create your script. Enter the requested information on the
title page where indicated. Where you find the text “This is
where you will…” within the proposal, please remove that and
enter your own content. The headings in bold and the outline
formatting with numbers and letters should not be altered.
In your Written Proposal, you must include the following:
Complete each section of the template including the information
requested.
Within section “iv” for each room, you will be asked to justify
your activities and items by analyzing interactions of the major
themes: Health and Well-Being, Family and Parenting,
Education, Culture and Gender as factors influencing the
developmental physical, cognitive and psychosocial pathways.
Your written proposal must address how you have accounted for
each of these themes in its associated room as they relate to
physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development. Each theme
must be included in at least one room, and each room must
address one or more themes. (Please see
these samples
for ways to explain how you have accounted for this.)
Cite your sources according to APA style as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center
. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the
Ashford Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources
tab on the left navigation toolbar in your online course. The
EBSCOHost and PSYCinfo databases in the Ashford Online
Library are helpful sources of information, as are the required
and recommended resources found in your course materials. To
locate EBSCOHost and PSYCinfo, visit the Ashford Online

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Library through the tab on the left navigation toolbar in your
online course and select "Databases by Subject" and then
"Psychology." (For further assistance in researching scholarly
sources, please access the
tutorials page
on the Ashford University Library website.)
Part B: Presentation
In your presentation, you must include the following:
A visual presentation which includes:
A title slide/image which includes the name of your Community
Center, a picture, your name, the course, your instructor’s
name, and the date submitted.
Ten images representing children’s activities which correspond
with what your own Community Center Rooms might look like
for each specified age group in your Written Proposal.
A 5-minute screencast which includes:
A vocal introduction to your Community Center, in which you
state a description of the overall goals of the Center and a brief
overview of some of the activities found inside.
With each of your ten activity images, you should provide very
brief vocal summary the activity, what item(s) are needed, and
the theory and research supporting your decisions.
A vocal conclusion to your presentation, in which you thank the
city council and state that this is your official recommendation
for these rooms.
You may utilize technology from this list, or any other visual or
screencast editing software which you see fit, as long as the
instructor will be able to view the presentation without needing
to download and/or pay for additional software.
For Visual Presentations:
Prezi (recommended)
PowerPoint
PowToons
For Screencasts:
Screencast-O-Matic (recommended)
Jing

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Screenr
Creating the Written Proposal
The Final Written Proposal:
Must be 6 to 8 double-spaced pages in length, and formatted
according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing
Center.
Must include a title page with the following:
Title of Community Center
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct
thesis statement, in which you introduce the topic and your
Community Center.
Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought within
each of the designated age groups.
Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis and
thanks the mock city council for their time and consideration of
your proposal.
Must use at least two scholarly sources, including a minimum of
one from the Ashford Online Library.
Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate reference page, formatted according to
APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Creating the Presentation
The Final Presentation:
Must have at least 12 slides/images, including an introductory
picture, two infant activities, two toddler activities, two early
childhood activities, two middle/late childhood activities, two
adolescent activities, and concluding slide.
Must utilize the Written Proposal Template, including an
introduction that has a succinct thesis statement.
The pictures of activities must address the topic of the paper
with critical thought within each room.

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The presentation must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your
thesis and a thank you to the mock city council for their time
and consideration of your proposal.