Nearly all students have seen pregnant women and may have questions about human development. Intended for secondary students with mild to moderate mental disabilities, this lesson defines the process of pregnancy  in a...

Students discuss facts and myths associates with pregnancy and how conception can and cannot occur. They study fetal development and review terminology. They play a review game.

The basics of how humans reproduce is covered here. Learn about female and male reproductive organs, mating, fertilization, how a fetus develops, and birth.

The Why? Files have uncovered information relating baby birth size to early development. The study discusses the positives of delivering a larger baby.

A study suggesting that the presence of thyroid hormones in pregnancy has a dramatic effect on the development of the fetal brain.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how the embryo forms specialized cells and organs.

Use these questions on pregnancy to review for the NCLEX-RN test.