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Science C22: The Friendly Touch

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Award-winning video and lesson investigations for young children on the topic of touch

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Video and lesson investigations on the topic of touch. Key concepts include:

  • Animals sometimes communicate by touch.
  • Parent animals often comfort their young through touching.
  • Touching is important for most young animals. Animal courtship routines often involve touching.
  • Sometimes this is ritual behavior.
  • Sometimes the touching is functional.
  • Touching between human beings can be a powerful form of communication and also a way of passing on a personal message.
  • Touching plays critical roles in human social relationships including infant bonding and attachment, caretaking, aggression, courtship, sexual relations, first impressions, children’s interactions, and in medical settings.
  • Touching is crucial for the healthy development of babies and is one of the main ways in which they learn about the world.