"Health Education Ideas and Activities" contains these time saving features: Specific ready-to-use assessments for easily building accountability into your teaching; Over 200 handouts and 20 tests; A handy CD-ROM containing all the reproducibles for quick access; A lesson idea finder for quickly locating the content you need.

Tools for Teaching Health presents classroom-tested, ready to use activities and lessons developed and written by highly acclaimed health educators. This much-needed resource provides any health educator who works with various populations with the strategies that will enhance the health education experience and make learning fun. Designed to be practical, all the book’s proven activities are reproducible, hands-on, student-centered, and interactive.

Lesson Planning for Skills-Based Health Education offers 64 field-tested lesson plans, learning activities, and assessments for implementing a skills-based approach in your class. The curriculum is flexible and adaptable, and it addresses all the skills in the National Health Education Standards.

Contains a variety of reproducible worksheets and activities designed to help teach basic health care principles, including medical terminology, vital signs, team building, and cultural awareness.

This resource supports teaching children and young people about mental health, wellbeing, resilience, and interpersonal skills. It was written with support from the Beeby Fellowship funded by the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO and NZCER. Teachers will discover ways to enhance student learning in four broad areas: personal identity and wellbeing communication and relationships with others social issues and social justice (especially against discrimination and exclusion) health promotion and action. The lesson plans work for multiple year and curriculum levels, and are particularly useful for Years 711 health education. Teachers will find relevant content for the following health education topics: personal identity and enhancing self-worth stress management friendships, relationships, and communication effects of discrimination and stereotyping on mental health support of self and others during times of difficulty equity issues that support the mental health of others and society help-seeking drug education and alcohol education (for example, the content on assertive communication, decision making, personal values) leadership and effective communication. The activities can be extended for senior secondary students and modified to be accessible for students at lower levels. Notes throughout explain how teachers can adapt, apply, and use the activities and ideas to achieve the intended learning outcomes and develop key competencies. Each section begins with specific achievement objectives, but teachers are free to develop their own. For this reason, achievement objectives for each activity are not specified. Instead, teachers can use the matrix showing links with the New Zealand Curriculum

Physical inactivity is a key determinant of health across the lifespan. A lack of activity increases the risk of heart disease, colon and breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, anxiety and depression and others diseases. Emerging literature has suggested that in terms of mortality, the global population health burden of physical inactivity approaches that of cigarette smoking. The prevalence and substantial disease risk associated with physical inactivity has been described as a pandemic. The prevalence, health impact, and evidence of changeability all have resulted in calls for action to increase physical activity across the lifespan. In response to the need to find ways to make physical activity a health priority for youth, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment was formed. Its purpose was to review the current status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school, and examine the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents. Educating the Student Body makes recommendations about approaches for strengthening and improving programs and policies for physical activity and physical education in the school environment. This report lays out a set of guiding principles to guide its work on these tasks. These included: recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long physical activity habits in children; the value of using systems thinking in improving physical activity and physical education in the school environment; the recognition of current disparities in opportunities and the need to achieve equity in physical activity and physical education; the importance of considering all types of school environments; the need to take into consideration the diversity of students as recommendations are developed. This report will be of interest to local and national policymakers, school officials, teachers, and the education community, researchers, professional organizations, and parents interested in physical activity, physical education, and health for school-aged children and adolescents.

Concluding a two-year review and revision process supported by the American Cancer Society and conducted by an expert panel of health education professionals, this second edition of the National Health Education Standards is the foremost reference in establishing, promoting, and supporting health-enhancing behaviors for students in all grade levels. These guidelines and standards provide a framework for teachers, administrators, and policy makers in designing or selecting curricula, allocating instructional resources, and assessing student achievement and progress; provide students, families, and communities with concrete expectations for health education; and advocate for quality health education in schools, including primary cancer prevention for children and youth.