In a recent webinar, Realityworks Marketing Communications Manager Samantha Forehand teamed up with Account Manager Anne Bogstad to talk about creating memorable learning experiences for today’s students with five of our most popular infant simulators and models. Known as “The Quints,” these unique learning aids include our Shaken Baby, Drug-Affected Baby, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Baby, Preemie Baby, and Down Syndrome Baby. They provide comprehensive learning opportunities on a variety of important topics, like the damaging effects of shaking a baby and alcohol and drug consumption during pregnancy.
Watch the webinar in its entirety, and see a live demonstration of each simulator, below:
What is included with The Quints package?
The Quints package conveniently bundles Realityworks’ Shaken Baby, Drug-Affected Baby, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Baby, Preemie Baby and Down Syndrome Baby and case. These five impactful infant simulators are grouped together to bring a thorough infant care simulation into your classroom. Whether you teach child care career skills or address health and social service topics, these simulators help students identify various situations and know how to react.
What curriculum is included?
This package has a combined curriculum of 8 hours. Lesson plans align to many national standards, including the National Standards for Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Common Core and AAFCS Family and Community Services Standards. (Click here for more information on curriculum standards.)
Written by experts, these lesson plans get students to think about life and how they would handle difficult real-life situations. Each lesson starts with an attention-getter, continues with active learning and demonstration opportunities, and concludes with an assessment or discussion evaluation.
Access our curriculum. We’ve made all of the lesson plans and resources that accompany our infant simulators and models available to teachers for free during the pandemic. Access it here.
What makes these infant simulators memorable?
Lined-up side-by-side, the simulators allow students to easily see (and in the case of our demonstrators, hear and experience) differences in size, body characteristics and facial features.
- Preemie Baby: Our Preemie Baby demonstrates a premature baby at 30 weeks. It weighs 3 lbs. and measures 16 inches in length.
- Down Syndrome Baby: Our Down Syndrome Baby shows common physical features of a baby for with this condition, including a flat facial profile, broad forehead, spots on the eyes, larger torso relative to the length of their arms and legs, poor muscle tone, neck folds and singular palm crease.
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Baby: This Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Baby features a flat mid face, low ears, wide apart eyes, webbed fingers, low birth weight and tiny limbs.
- Drug-Affected Baby: Our Drug-Affected Baby depicts common conditions of a baby born addicted to drugs including physical withdraw tremors, inconsolable cry, painful facial expression and clenched hands.
- Shaken Baby: Intended to bring awareness to the dangers of shaking a baby, this Shaken Baby Simulator shows how little it takes to damage an infant’s brain once shaken. Its clear head allows the students to see the areas of brain affected, including how the back-and-forth motion causes the brain to slam against the skull. Also included is a “Pledge Not to Shake” certificate.
Watch these infant simulators in action. See a live demonstration of each of the above infant simulators by watching our recent webinar, “The Quints Package of Infant Simulators.”
What additional resources are included?
We love getting into classrooms and hearing from teachers regarding their teaching challenges so we can create memorable learning aids, curricula and activities. Providing relevant, supporting resources to help you engage your students and teach in-demand skills is our passion. Use the guides, lesson ideas, blogs and webinars on this classroom ideas page to excite your students in career exploration and skill development opportunities related to FCS, STEM and general education. These resources are also a great introduction to our most popular training tools.
Learn more
Use the resources below to learn more about our infant simulators and models, and how we can help you create memorable learning experiences.
- Watch our recent Quints webinar on-demand anytime
- Learn how to teach a remote lesson on child abuse prevention by reading this recent blog
- Find us on your favorite social platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, for teaching tips, upcoming webinars, classroom ideas and more
