October 2007
Feature Story
Backward Planning and Big Ideas in Health Education
How can we help students to understand major concepts and important ideas in health education? How do we align curriculum, instruction, and assessment in meaningful ways that tap into student interests, knowledge, and experiences?
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Professional Development
Learning Personal and Social Skills: Bringing Children's Health Education into the 21st Century
What was health education like when you were in school? Ho-hum? The same stuff every year? What did you do on rainy days when you couldn't go outside for physical education? An endless array of worksheets that didn't relate to your real life? No wonder health education was such a forgettable subject!
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Teacher Tips—What Works!
Teacher tips are tried-and-true teaching strategies developed by health education teachers from across the country. Take a look at some classroom activities that really work.
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Fitness Zone
When your students' attention begins to lag, an activity from the Fitness Zone can shake things up and help the students to refocus.
Top 5 List (Lesson Review)
Help students make a brain-body connection to enhance learning:
- Assign each student to a partner.
- Give the first student 30 seconds to list five important points from the lesson.
- Instruct partners to work together to create and demonstrate an action that can be associated with each point listed (e.g., carbohydrates provide energy = pretend to jump rope)
- Give the second student 30 seconds to repeat the information and actions.
- Have partners switch roles and repeat the activity.
You can find more energy boosters like these in Fitness Zone.
