Health Education Ideas And Activities

"Health Education Ideas and Activities" contains these time saving features: Specific ready-to-use assessments for easily building accountability into your teaching; Over 200 handouts and 20 tests; A handy CD-ROM containing all the reproducibles for quick access; A lesson idea finder for quickly locating the content you need.

//-->H9909-6, 0-205-19909-7, Champeau, Donna (Oregon State University), Great Ideas in Teaching Health, 6x9, paperback, 160pp, $13.95 P, 2 stars, HE07 //-->All too often teachers are challenged with the task of making their lessons inviting, intriguing, and most of all, fun for their students. The ideas and activities in this book are favorites that have been tried and tested in the classroom and submitted by health educators from across the United States.This compilation of some of the best ideas for the college-age student covers a wide range of health-related areas. Each teaching idea provides readers with a strategy to help teach new health concepts as well as reinforce previously learned material. One of the book's strengths is its versatility, with 43 generic activities that can be applied and adapted to be used with any other health book. KEY MARKETA great resource for all health instructors at all levels.

Contains a variety of reproducible worksheets and activities designed to help teach basic health care principles, including medical terminology, vital signs, team building, and cultural awareness.

Over 180 field-tested lesson plans, learning activities, and assessments for implementing a skills-based approach in your class. This resource is aligned with the National Health Education Standards and comes with a web resource that includes English and Spanish versions of the book's reproducible forms.

The skills necessary to plan and deliver efficient health education programs are fundamentally the same, whether it's in a classroom, workplace, hospital, or community. Health Education: Creating Strategies for School & Community Health, Third Edition provides the tools to make appropriate programming decisions based on the needs of the clients and the educational settings. It encourages the systematic development of sound, effective, and appropriate presentation methods and demonstrates the evolving state of health education. The philosophy presented in this text is based on the premise that the core of health education is the process of health education. It is a must-have resource for health education methods courses.

Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.

"This book focuses on health education-specific teaching practices. It presents core teaching practices situated within contemporary education practice and policy. It provides support for preservice and practicing health education teachers with short, to-the-point chapters, presenting strategies for preservice or new teachers as well as veteran instructors who may wish to change up their approach"--