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- 5th - 7th
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Students work on activities designed to teach them about nutrition. The lesssons discuss the food pyramid, fast food facts, and how to identify what is in the food we eat. They also answer the important question - Is chocolate good for you? Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students gain an appreciation for the networks within the health care systems internationally and learn about the World Health Organization and its work with communicable disease. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students work in teams to synthesize their air, asthma, air contamination, and environmental health knowledge as well as additional research to represent a particular point of view persuasively. They create a handout and presentatin materials to help communicate this knowledge and point of view. Pupils use these materials, to practice public speaking to present their work. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students readn an article about the need for comprehensive clinical guidelines to help save the lives of children in complex emergency situations such as war or natural disasters. They analyze two different clinical guidelines in the context of a hypothetical scenario in Afghanistan. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the hardships faced by children in Haiti. In groups, they discuss the impact that their poverty situation has on every aspect of their life. They use the internet to research the social and political situations which have made their situation worse. They are also introduced to the efforts of UNICEF to help. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students study the factors that affect health. They identify four factors which contribute to health and identify the environment as the factor with the most impact. They tape their card(s) under the column on the flip chart paper that most affects/contributes to the health problem or issue on their card. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students assess their body size using BMI. They calculate their own BMI and determine their percentile rankings on a growth chart. Students discuss how being overweight can put an individual at risk for developing chronic health problems. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students analyze the influences that result in health problems. They identify environmental and genetic factors that influence health problems. Students scan the newspaper looking for articles on health and health problems. They share information regarding environmental and genetic sources for disease or injury. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten
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Students study health and fitness. They see exercise in ways that are fun. They identify which foods they should eat based on nutrition. In addition to this, students participate in a pretend healthy picnic and a fitness game. Full Review »
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- 1st - 3rd
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Students explore rescue and medical careers and then discuss ways that emergency personnel help people on-the-job. They choose a health topic and write a list of basic health rules. Students design a poster depicting a scene in which health workers assist people. Using construction paper, they create figures of nurses, doctors, fire fighters, police officers and others to add to their painting. Full Review »