Teacher Tips—What Works!
Teacher tips are tried-and-true teaching strategies developed by health education teachers around the country. Take a look at some classroom activities that really work, then share some of your own!
Submitted by Terri Sage
West Ranch High School
Stevenson Ranch, CA
When teaching the nutrition unit, I ask students, as part of their homework, to get a nutritional guide from a fast food restaurant. They can go to the restaurant and ask for one or they can download it off the restaurant's website. I then have the students do an analysis. For example, I'll ask them to find a lunch that would be good for someone with heart disease (low in saturated fat), or anemia (high in iron), or diabetic (low in sugar), or high blood pressure (low in sodium) or colon cancer (high in fiber), or obesity (low calorie), etc. Many of my students later remark that they have changed their unhealthy fast food habits as a result of what they learned by reading these nutritional guides.
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