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Karen in CO Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Health is a big topic. You can break it down, and it grows every year. I have a list of "health" topics that I want to cover each year and then treat them separately - field trips and hands-on are great for elementary health. Here are some of the topics I rotate in right now - later there will be more: Safety: basic first aid fire safety - including stop, drop and roll, fire drills, and such car safety - seat belts, air bags, looking for cars bike and playground safety gun safety Fitness: benefits of exercise how the cardiovascular system works how weight training benefits muscles why you "warm-up" and "cool-down" setting fitness goals and working towards them - my dd8 is planning to run a 5k with her dad. taking a pulse we rotate through different types of exercises - yoga, cycling, group sports and such to learn the rules Hygiene Learn about dental hygiene, tooth decay, gum disease, role of nutrition learn about how personal hygiene relates to development - body hair, acne, body odor, etc.. Nutrition - there's lots here from reading labels to understanding digestion Emotional health - identify basic emotions bullying peer groups seeking help and coping skills Drug and substance abuse - identify poisons teach that medications should only be taken with adult supervision talk about tobacco and its effects on the body Strangers violence and abuse this is a big one - cover it all the time. privacy, rights of a child, right to be safe, how to deal with strangers, what to do if you are lost, what to do if someone hurts you or threatens to. The Magic School Bus Human Body collection of videos covers a good deal of the health and fitness material. For the rest, I just have a list and make sure we get to all of it although much of it happens in the realm of informal discussions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Crimson Wife Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 What grade level resources are you looking for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Healthy Me (ages 4-8) But you are needing it for older kids, aren't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Carmen, have you used any of her other books? Any comments on any of them? Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 (edited) Carmen, have you used any of her other books? Any comments on any of them? Rosie I was planning to purchase this one. I haven't used any of them. :D Rainbow Resource has a review that made it sound really great with activities and experiments. One is using their dirty hands to make a culture in tomato soup (I am assuming that you also make one with clean hands for comparison). I searched and searched and found no other secular options for this age group, though I am sure that a public school text might work. (K12 or Galore Park maybe, I didn't check to see if they had them.) There are some science programs that throw health in with the science. I feel like I am mispelling everything today, please excuse me if I am. I have never gotten the spell-check to work on here. Edited November 21, 2009 by Lovedtodeath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 I don't use anything in particular for health. I pick some topics and we discuss them. Sometimes I get a library book or find something online. I consider many things we do as part of daily living to be related to health (brush your teeth, eat good food, get rest and exercise, take care of yourself). :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J'etudie Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 The Health, Nutrition, & PE series by Steck Vaugh goes up to 6th grade. I use it to fulfill our states's health requirement. No pain. (The link goes to all of Rock Solid's health programs. Scroll down a bit to the Health, Nutrition & PE section.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Healthy Me (ages 4-8) But you are needing it for older kids, aren't you? Carmen, have you used any of her other books? Any comments on any of them? Rosie Okay, we will start Healthy Me, next week. About half of the activities are useable. There are 4 sections: Germs and cleanliness: One of the germ activities that sounds really cool requires a special light (maybe we can go to Chucki Cheese's for the experiment?) Another requires a microscope. Then there is one that has you testing parts of your house for germs. I don't want to do that one because our house is VERY dirty and it will just cause DD to nag at me all of the time about it and there is nothing I can do about it. Dental Health: very much what I learned in Public School. Cheesy activities with about half of them being unrelated (create a work of art with a gum cleaner, dental floss, and toothbrushes, for example). Nutrition: Well, refined pretzels are listed as a good snack. Typical misinformation. Exercise: This seems okay. Overall I was most excited about the cleanliness part in the description and it does look like it has the bulk of informative experiments. If you have to do a health course to meet state standards this will fill the bill, as I remember a lot of the cheesy time-wasting activities and misinformation from my days in Public School. I will probably use about 1/4 of the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelBee Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Great list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momling Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Brainpop has a lot of health related videos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyAberlin Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Oak meadow has Growing Growing Strong for the younger grades. They also have a highschool helth program called Lifetime health. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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