Great ideas in teaching health

All too often teachers are challenged with the task of making their lessons inviting, intriguing, and most of all, fun for their students. The ideas and activities in this book are favorites that have been tried and tested in the classroom and submitted by health educators from across the United Sta...

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Main Author: Champeau, Donna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston Allyn and Bacon c1998
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Perceptions
  • 2. Identifying health issues in your community
  • 3. An autobiography or an obituary?
  • 4. Help your public health department solve real problems
  • 5. Think about learning through relationships
  • 6. Investigating behavior change at multiple levels
  • 7. Disease mnemonics: a learner-centered activity
  • 8. Analyze a health decision
  • 9. Personal health journal
  • 10. He said, she said...gender communications
  • 11. Communicating effectively: multi-media metaphors
  • 12. Teaching critical thinking through the mock trial
  • 13. Listening skills
  • 14. Using debate to develop health literacy
  • 15. Action packed previews may lead to numerous reviews
  • 16. Timelines and murals
  • 17. Alternative healing
  • 18. Wandering through wonder
  • 19. Examining the origin and impact of life-style habits
  • 20. Smoking risk factors
  • 21. Learn to teach tobacco cessation clases
  • 22. Visit a soup kitchen or shelter
  • 23. Need and conceptualization of the personal drug philosophy activity
  • 24. Around the world of addictions: an adolescent perspective
  • 25. The mirror technique
  • 26. Define sexual harassment
  • 27. Prejudice
  • 28. Subjective decision making and HIV risk among college students
  • 29. Reducing homophobia in the classroom
  • 30. The sexual activity survey
  • 31. Exercises in understanding human sexuality
  • 32. Teaching the concept of sexual readliness
  • 33. Birth control
  • 34. Pregnancy and childbirth
  • 35. He asks, she says and she asks, he says
  • 36. Gender benders
  • 37. Enhancing self-esteem through peer interaction
  • 38. Stress reactivity
  • 39. My aunt Mattie
  • 40. Get the facts from someone who knows
  • 41. Pyramid power
  • 42. Digestive system lineup.