Teaching TodayÆs Health Product Description
Teaching Today's Health, Tenth Edition, balances comprehensive theory with a wealth of effective classroom activities to give you the tools you need to become successful health educators.
This book's strong background and depth in teaching methods prepares you for the challenges of today's teaching environment.
Meaningful content enhancements include expanded coverage of bullying and obesity, body systems, and substance abuse and a new Creativity in the Classroom feature and an Index of Strategies).
Important currency updates include a significantly updated nutrition chapter with new MyPlate and 2010 Dietary Guidelines and more technology coverage.
Helpful Companion Website include all Worksheets available in PDF form, for easy copying to hand out to students in class, and a new easy-to-reference Glossary.
Priced significantly less than other books in the market, this attractive two-color book provides great value to you.
Features + Benefits
Solid foundation in health method theory shows students how to teach to elementary and grade school children.
Detailed classroom activities give students practical, hands-on ideas to use in their future lesson plans and classrooms.
Health Highlight boxes highlight important information and introduce tools teachers can use with their students.
Suggested grade levels are listed next to each activity in the strategies chapters to help students adapt activities to their own K-8 classrooms.
Companion Website features quizzes that help students study, Web links for each chapter to expand on the chapter content, web-based activities, a glossary and flashcards, and additional Worksheet masters for students to use when teaching.
Comprehensive coverage of current health topics includes Healthy People 2020, MyPlate, Coordinated School Health programs, HIV, and cyberbullying.
Sample lesson plans in each of the strategies chapters help students plan instruction based on the National Health Education Standards.
Worksheets at the end of the book are provided as a tool that can be used directly in the health classroom.
Assessment criteria appears in every activity in the Strategies chapters.
Teaching Tips and Creativity in the Classroom short features describe practical and tested "best practices" for new health teachers and suggest ways to capture student attention.
1. The Need for Health Education
2. The Role of the Teacher in Coordinated School Health Programs
3. Planning for Health Instruction
4. Strategies for Implementing Health Instruction
5. Measurement and Evaluation of Health Education
6. Mental Health and Stress Reduction
7. Strategies for Teaching Mental Health and Stress Reduction
8. Body Systems
9. Personal Health
10. Strategies for Teaching Body Systems and Personal Health
11. Sexuality Education
12. Strategies for Teaching Sexuality Education
13. Substance Use and Abuse
14. Strategies for Teaching About Substance Use and Abuse
15. Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions
16. Strategies for Teaching About Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions
17. Nutrition
18. Strategies for Teaching Nutrition
19. Injuries: Accident and Violence Prevention
20. Strategies for Teaching About Injuries: Accident and Violence Prevention
21. Consumer Health
22. Strategies for Teaching Consumer Health
23. Aging, Dying, and Death
24. Strategies for Teaching About Aging, Dying, and Death
25. Environmental Health
26. Strategies for Teaching Environmental Health
Teaching Today's Health, Tenth Edition, balances comprehensive theory with a wealth of effective classroom activities to give you the tools you need to become successful health educators.
This book's strong background and depth in teaching methods prepares you for the challenges of today's teaching environment.
Meaningful content enhancements include expanded coverage of bullying and obesity, body systems, and substance abuse and a new Creativity in the Classroom feature and an Index of Strategies).
Important currency updates include a significantly updated nutrition chapter with new MyPlate and 2010 Dietary Guidelines and more technology coverage.
Helpful Companion Website include all Worksheets available in PDF form, for easy copying to hand out to students in class, and a new easy-to-reference Glossary.
Priced significantly less than other books in the market, this attractive two-color book provides great value to you.
Features + Benefits
Solid foundation in health method theory shows students how to teach to elementary and grade school children.
Detailed classroom activities give students practical, hands-on ideas to use in their future lesson plans and classrooms.
Health Highlight boxes highlight important information and introduce tools teachers can use with their students.
Suggested grade levels are listed next to each activity in the strategies chapters to help students adapt activities to their own K-8 classrooms.
Companion Website features quizzes that help students study, Web links for each chapter to expand on the chapter content, web-based activities, a glossary and flashcards, and additional Worksheet masters for students to use when teaching.
Comprehensive coverage of current health topics includes Healthy People 2020, MyPlate, Coordinated School Health programs, HIV, and cyberbullying.
Sample lesson plans in each of the strategies chapters help students plan instruction based on the National Health Education Standards.
Worksheets at the end of the book are provided as a tool that can be used directly in the health classroom.
Assessment criteria appears in every activity in the Strategies chapters.
Teaching Tips and Creativity in the Classroom short features describe practical and tested "best practices" for new health teachers and suggest ways to capture student attention.
1. The Need for Health Education
2. The Role of the Teacher in Coordinated School Health Programs
3. Planning for Health Instruction
4. Strategies for Implementing Health Instruction
5. Measurement and Evaluation of Health Education
6. Mental Health and Stress Reduction
7. Strategies for Teaching Mental Health and Stress Reduction
8. Body Systems
9. Personal Health
10. Strategies for Teaching Body Systems and Personal Health
11. Sexuality Education
12. Strategies for Teaching Sexuality Education
13. Substance Use and Abuse
14. Strategies for Teaching About Substance Use and Abuse
15. Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions
16. Strategies for Teaching About Infectious and Noninfectious Conditions
17. Nutrition
18. Strategies for Teaching Nutrition
19. Injuries: Accident and Violence Prevention
20. Strategies for Teaching About Injuries: Accident and Violence Prevention
21. Consumer Health
22. Strategies for Teaching Consumer Health
23. Aging, Dying, and Death
24. Strategies for Teaching About Aging, Dying, and Death
25. Environmental Health
26. Strategies for Teaching Environmental Health