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 Ivy Kurland
Everglades School
Florida

I teach about Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) by organizing students into groups of four. I assign a different STD to each group. After discussing their notes and using drawings to label and learn (Female and Male Anatomy), student groups present:

Questions/Answers per STD assigned (example: HPV-Genital Warts), and an
ORAL Presentation on the STD (symptoms, bacterial or viral, treatments).

The students learn from each other and enjoy doing the work together. This instills "Social Health" collaboration and, as teacher, I can facilitate/work more closely with my students one-on-one.

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