Comprehensive School Health Education 8th Ed.

Description: The most widely used college health education text and teacher resource book, Comprehensive School Health Education provides everything needed to teach health in grades in grades K-12. This text prepares teachers to design and implement a curriculum that integrates the 2007 National Health Education Standards (NHES), the six categories of risk behavior identified by the CDC, and the ten content areas of school health. Included are Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies(t), reproducible Teaching Masters, and a Curriculum Guide, all keyed to the NHES at age-appropriate grade levels. With more than 120 teaching strategies to use as lesson plans, Comprehensive School Health Education offers teachers and future teachers a dynamic and empowering approach to teaching health skills and promoting lifelong healthy behaviors in their students.

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 and Healthful School Environment: Promoting and Protecting Health and Safety Chapter 3: The Comprehensive School Health Education Curriculum: A Blueprint for Implementing the National Health Education Standards Chapter 4: Instructional Strategies and Technologies: Motivating Students to Learn Section 2: Health Content Chapter 5: Mental and Emotional Health Chapter 6: Family and Social Health Chapter 7: Growth and Development Chapter 8: Nutrition Chapter 9: Personal Health and Physical Activity Chapter 10: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Chapter 11: Communicable and Chronic Diseases Chapter 12: Consumer and Community Health Chapter 13: Environmental Health Chapter 14: Injury Prevention and Safety Section 3: Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies Chapter 15: 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 16: Using the Meeks Heit K-12 Health Education Curriculum Guide Appendixes A: National Health Education Standards: Teaching Masters B: The Teacher's Encyclopedic Guide for Health Concerns of School-Age Youth...from A-Z C: Health Resources Glossary Index