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 Diane Whiting
Suffern Middle School,
Suffern, NY

When teaching body image and the prevention of eating disorders, I want my students to be able to examine messages from the media. We examine the process of airbrushing that allows many models to look "perfect." Then, students find ads in magazines that represent diversity (different body shapes, ethnicities, and ages). Students write letters to these companies commending them for sending messages of beauty that don't conform to the traditional media's version of perfect.