Comprehensive School Health Education with Ready Notes and PowerWeb OLC Bind-in Passcard

by Meeks, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780072560435
• ISBN10: 0072560436
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-23
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Comprehensive School Health Education, third edition continues to be the most thorough textbook and resource for helping elementary, middle, and secondary teachers teach health. It is the most widely used health education methods textbook and Teacher Resource Book for Health Education. Students who use this in a methods class keep it and use it when they student teach and when they secure a teaching position. They rely on the reliable, practical strategies and methods that the book provides. The 50-page Curriculum Guide at the end of the book is an organized, sequential K-12 plan for teaching students the information and skills they need to become health literate, maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk 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 Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies

Section 4 The Health Resource Guide

Chapter 17 Health Resource Guide

Section 5 The Meeks Heit K-12 Health Education Curriculum Guide: A Model for Implementing the National Health Education Standards

Chapter 18 Using the Meeks Heit K-12 Health Education Curriculum Guide

Appendix: The Opportunity-To-Learn Standards