Comprehensive School Health Education

by Meeks, Linda; Heit, Philip; Page, Randy M.

• ISBN13: 9780073029931
• ISBN10: 0073029939
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-21
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

A market leader, this book continues to be the most thorough text and resource for preparing elementary-, middle-, and secondary-school teachers to teach health. Students who use this text in a methods class keep it as a reference for student-teaching and throughout their teaching career. They rely on the practical strategies and methods that the book provides, as well as on its comprehensive Curriculum Guide: an organized, sequential K-12 plan for teaching students the information and skills they need to become health-literate, to maintain and improve their health, to prevent disease, and to reduce risky health-related behaviors.

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: Promoting and Protecting Student Health

Chapter 3: A Healthful and Safe School Environment: Protecting the Health and Safety of Students, Faculty, and Staff

Chapter 4: The Comprehensive School Health Education Curriculum: A Blueprint for Implementing the National Health Education Standards

Chapter 5: Instructional Strategies and Technologies: Motivating Students to Learn

Section 2: Health Content

Chapter 6: Mental and Emotional Health

Chapter 7: Family and Social Health

Chapter 8: Growth and Development

Chapter 9: Nutrition

Chapter 10: Personal Health and Physical Activity

Chapter 11: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Chapter 12: Communicable and Chronic Diseases

Chapter 13: Consumer and Community Health

Chapter 14: Environmental Health

Chapter 15: Injury Prevention and Safety

Section 3: Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies™

Chapter 16: 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 17: Using the Meeks Heit K-12 Health Education Curriculum Guide

Appendixes

A: National Health Education Standards: Teaching Masters

B: Healthy People 2010

C: The Teacher’s Encyclopedic Guide for Health Concerns of School-Age Youth…from A-Z

D: Health Resources

Glossary

Index