Steps for completing the assignment/instructions:

The group I got is Middle Childhood/School Years (5-10 years) 

Book is attached down below 

2) Register (as a student/nonprofessional) on www.Medscape.com (it is free and a good site for reputable health
information.)
3) Identify an article from 2023-2024 that discusses new research/findings about an issue related to the topic
that you were assigned (you may look anywhere on the site!) (*Make sure you are using new research! Don't select
an overview or one that summarizes past research/treatment approaches, a commentary, blog post, practice
guidelines, or just a news story--you will lose significant points for this. You completed general psychology--you know
how to recognize a study--are there participants, a procedure,/method, results? If not, keep looking. Use good search
terms: child, adolescent, older adults, palliative care, infants, etc. *Make finding the article your first, early step! If
you run into difficulty while pushing too close to the deadline, you won't have help available. I'm glad to help, but you
must let me know if the piece meets criteria for being a study first (e.g., don't email me asking "is this okay to use?") For example, if you were assigned Middle Childhood as a topic, you might peruse the Pediatric/Family Medicine areas of the site and (if interested) you could write about a piece titled, “Kids With Asthma at Greater Risk for Pneumococcal Disease.” Start writing. The items here in #4 and #5 should be separate sections.
4) Summarize the article chosen in #3--DO NOT QUOTE. Be sure that you know the difference between quoting and paraphrasing. This summary should be approximately 250 words minimum. Note: the age groups that you find  .

5) Identify a section (or sections) of the textbook (with specific page numbers) that relates to the piece you
selected. Discuss the connected information--DO NOT QUOTE. This part of the assignment should also be 250 words minimum. Please be sure that your page numbers are in-text. A general reference and/or one that includes a range of page numbers will not receive credit. If I were assigned middle adulthood and found an article on a recent study of heart disease, there are several topics that I could connect from the textbook. For example, I could write: The article discusses the impact of dietary patterns in rates of heart disease; our text book
presents information related to the increase in atherosclerosis as we age, pointing out that men tend to be at greater risk (p. 326.) This section in the textbook also discusses some of the other risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as...
*Do not summarize the textbook section and simply put a range of page numbers at the bottom of the section--I need to see each piece of information connected specifically and cited in the textbook with page numbers. Note: the textbook connections may not always be identical to the topic from your research brief on Medscape (e.g., in discussing a piece on vaping in teens, you might decide to link that to risk-taking behavior in adolescence from the
textbook, not vaping per se.) Use the chapter overviews to find connections (see table of contents/first page of each chapter.) If you are using the pdf, use the ctrl F function--it will pull up a search box and you can search for terms. It is also likely that you will be using material that we have yet to cover in the class; the chapter topics should
make it clear where to look for connections.

5) The link to the article that you selected for #3 above should be placed at the bottom of your written piece so that your classmates (and I) can review the actual article if we so choose.