Child development course mission

Often at the end of a course, an exam covering all of the material is administered.  Unfortunately, this doesn't necessarily help students see connections between concepts, especially if there are a lot of concepts to understand.

Child Development is a course in psychology in which you study the development of the child through time.  This led me to an interesting idea: time can be represented graphically as a timeline.  Further, the material covered includes physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development, which as I saw it made for a large map plotting out the child's development along each of the three lines in parallel through time.  Then I thought of making the map interactive.  This is done easily enough through a Prezzi presentation, but since the course is about children, I thought an interactive map should be a map you can physically interact with.  So what if the map is laid out on the floor with little flaps you can lift up, under which the students in the course have written information.  Let's say the flaps come in different shapes.  A square flap can be lifted to show a summary of the theory of that particular moment in a child's development, while a circular flap could be lifted to reveal a thought experiment.  A diamond flap would have underneath it a practical game or activity you could do to encourage the child and a rectangle would reveal pictures illusrating the different stages.

The final purpose of the map would be to invite guests: mothers of young children, teachers, other students, and anyone else who is interested.  The guests would then explore the map by literally crawling around it on their hands and knees and lifting the flaps...just like a child would!