Tools for Teaching Health

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.

Acknowledgments ix

About the Authors xi

Notes to Teacher xiii

CHAPTER 1 TOBACCO

Icebreaker: Tobacco People Hunt 1

Lesson 1: Tobacco Grab Bag 5

Lesson 2: Demonstration of Tobacco’s Harmful Effects 7

Lesson 3: Tobacco No-No 14

Lesson 4: Tobacco Decision Making 18

Lesson 5: Tobacco Talk Show 22

Home–School Connection: Smoking Interview 24

Project: Multiple Intelligence Tobacco Project 27

Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 31

CHAPTER 2 ALCOHOL

Icebreaker: Concentric Circles 39

Lesson 1: Alcohol Concept Splash 42

Lesson 2: Alcohol Simulation Stations 45

Lesson 3: Drinking and Driving Timeline 53

Lesson 4: Dysfunctional Families—An Alcohol Story 56

Lesson 5: Pick-and-Choose Refusal Skills 62

Home–School Connection: Contract for Life 70

Project: Show Us the Money! Alcohol Grant Writing 73

Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 79

CHAPTER 3 DRUGS

Icebreaker: Raise Your Hand If You Take Drugs 87

Lesson 1: Paper Plate Pharmacology 89

Lesson 2: Refusal Skills and Marijuana 91

Lesson 3: How Social Is Norm? 97

Lesson 4: The “I’s” Have It 101

Lesson 5: Up Close and Personal 109

Home–School Connection: Talking About Marijuana 112

Project: What’s Up in Health? 116

Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 120

CHAPTER 4 NUTRITION

Icebreaker: Toilet Paper Game 127

Lesson 1: Puzzling Pieces 129

Lesson 2: Did I Eat That? How to Read a Food Label 147

Lesson 3: What’s That? 151

Lesson 4: Hearty Appetites 154

Lesson 5: Positive and Negative Weight Loss Cards 157

Home–School Connection: Favorite Family Recipe Conversion 162

Project: Food Diary and Reflection Paper 166

Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 173

CHAPTER 5 SEXUALITY EDUCATION

Icebreaker: Abstinence Bingo 179

Lesson 1: Sexuality Brainstorm 182

Lesson 2: That’s My Line 185

Lesson 3: Raw Oysters Have Feelings, Too! 188

Lesson 4: Contraception Commercials 191

Lesson 5: What Are They Selling? 195

Home–School Connection: Hopes and Fears 198

Project: Music with a Message 201

Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 206

CHAPTER 6 VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Icebreaker: Tie Activity—What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up? 213

Lesson 1: Violence Match Game 217

Lesson 2: Where Do You Stand? 219

Lesson 3: Managing Anger Round Robin 221

Lesson 4: Crossing the Line 225

Lesson 5: Conflict Resolution 228

Home–School Connection: Television Violence 234

Project: Production Company 237

Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 245

CHAPTER 7 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Icebreaker: Who’s Who on the Playground? 251

Lesson 1: The Secret Magic Super Pill for Good Health 253

Lesson 2: Disco Aerobics 258

Lesson 3: Physical Activity and Goal Setting 262

Lesson 4: “Counterfeit Fitness”—The Dangers of 272

Using Anabolic Steroids and Other Performance-Enhancing Substances

Lesson 5: A Pound of Fat—Doing the Weight-Loss Math 277

Home–School Connection: Physical Activity 283

Project: Student-Created Public Service Announcements 286

Assessment: Functional Knowledge and Skills Exam 294

THE AUTHORS

SHANNON WHALEN is an associate professor in the Department of Health Education, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2005 she was named New York State "Higher Education Professional of the Year."

DOMINICK SPLENDORIO has been a health educator and district-wide health education coordinator for more than twenty years. He has twice been named "Health Educator of the Year" in New York State.

SAL CHIARIELLO has been a health educator and developer of health education curriculum for more than 20 years. In 2005 he was named "New York State District Health Coordinator of the Year."

The Tools You Need for Teaching Health

Health educators who work with adolescents, seniors, students, and other population groups must explain to their audiences the prevention of risk behaviors, the interrelationship between health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors and health status, and the workings of the human body, all in language that is easily understandable and jargon free.

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, studentcentered, and interactive.

Tools for Teaching Health concentrates on the key areas that are critical to health education:

• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Drugs
• Nutrition
• Sexuality Education
• Violence Prevention
• Physical Activity

Tools for Teaching Health reflects the National Health Education Standards that support the need to promote health and disease prevention behavior. The chapters show how to promote healthy behaviors, such as stress management, communication skills, assertiveness, refusal skills, goal setting, resource management, media analysis, and advocate for personal, family, and community health.

All the activities highlighted in Tools for Teaching Health are designed to promote cooperative learning, social interaction, creativity, and a mutual atmosphere of trust, respect, and the joy of learning health.

PRAISE FOR TOOLS FOR TEACHING HEALTH

"The finest teaching methodology book that I've seen, written by true professionals. The lessons are easy to follow and have all been 'tried and tested' in the classroom." —DR. DARREL LANG, Health and Physical Education Program Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education

"A great resource to connect the Learning Standards to the health skills required to be successful in the twenty-first century." —DR. GARY ENGLISH, former professor at Ithaca College and executive director for the Statewide Center for Healthy Schools in New York “The finest teaching methodology book that I've seen, written by true professionals. The lessons are easy to follow and have all been ‘tried and tested’ in the classroom.”--Dr. Darrel Lang, Health and Physical Education Program Consultant, Kansas State Department of Education

“A great resource to connect the Learning Standards to the health skills required to be successful in the twenty-first century.”--­Dr. Gary English