Health Education Teaching Ideas

"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.

Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Health Education offers 64 field-tested lesson plans, learning activities, and assessments for implementing a skills-based approach in your class. The curriculum is flexible and adaptable, and it addresses all the skills in the National Health Education Standards.

Part I of this teaching guide contains teaching strategies which originally appeared in the "Journal of Health Education" (JHE) and were included in the first edition of this guide, published in 1983. Part II includes teaching strategies published in JHE since 1983. The guide is designed to be a reference for those seeking workable ideas in teaching and delivering health education programs to junior and senior high school students. However, the material can be adapted for middle school through college level. Within each part, articles focus on two major areas: process and content. Examples of process-focused articles are: "Health Games"; "Health Science Fairs"; "The Writing Process in Health Class"; "Teaching about Authoring Systems: Instructional Design Tools for Health Education"; and "Using College Students as Senior Peer Teachers in Youth-to-Youth Health Education." Examples of content-focused articles are: "Once upon a Synapse: A Drug Education Simulation in Three Acts"; "Teaching Abstinence to Today's Teens"; "Teaching the Four Cs of First Aid"; "Student-to-Student Teaching about Tobacco Smoking"; and "Coping with Violence." (IAH)

The Essentials of Teaching Health Education, Second Edition, presents a skills-based approach to teaching K-12 health education, offering practical strategies for curriculum design and program development and an individualized approach to student learning. Its ancillaries facilitate the learning

Tools for Teaching Health presents classroom-tested, ready to use activities and lessons developed and written by highly acclaimed health educators. This much-needed resource provides any health educator who works with various populations with the strategies that will enhance the health education experience and make learning fun. Designed to be practical, all the book’s proven activities are reproducible, hands-on, student-centered, and interactive.

"This reference text is based on national standards for health and physical education. It provides elementary school teachers with information they can use to integrate health and PE subjects into their classroom curriculum"--