The most widely used college health education text and teacher resource book,Comprehensive School Health Educationprovides everything needed to teach health in grades in grades K-12. This text prepares teachers to design and implement a curriculum that integrates the 2007 National Health Education Standards (NHES), the six categories of risk behavior identified by the CDC, and the ten content areas of school health. Included are Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies , reproducible Teaching Masters, and a Curriculum Guide, all keyed to the NHES at age-appropriate grade levels. With more than 120 teaching strategies to use as lesson plans,Comprehensive School Health Educationoffers teachers and future teachers a dynamic and empowering approach to teaching health skills and promoting lifelong healthy behaviors in their students.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Section 1: Comprehensive School Health Education
Chapter 1: A Nation at Risk: The Need for Comprehensive School Health Education
Chapter 2: School Health Services and Healthful School Environment: Promoting and Protecting Health and Safety
Chapter 3: The Comprehensive School Health Education Curriculum: A Blueprint for Implementing the National Health Education Standards
Chapter 4: Instructional Strategies and Technologies: Motivating Students to Learn
Section 2: Health Content
Chapter 5: Mental and Emotional Health
Chapter 6: Family and Social Health
Chapter 7: Growth and Development
Chapter 8: Nutrition
Chapter 9: Personal Health and Physical Activity
Chapter 10: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Chapter 11: Communicable and Chronic Diseases
Chapter 12: Consumer and Community Health
Chapter 13: Environmental Health
Chapter 14: Injury Prevention and Safety
Section 3: Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies
Chapter 15: Using the Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies
Section 4: The Meeks Heit K-12 Health Education Curriculum Guide: A Model for Implementing the National Health Education Standards
Chapter 16: Using the Meeks Heit K-12 Health Education Curriculum Guide
Appendixes
A: National Health Education Standards: Teaching Masters
B: The Teacher's Encyclopedic Guide for Health Concerns of School-Age Youth...from A-Z
C: Health Resources
Glossary
Index
