Teaching children about health - Estelle Weinstein & Efrem Rosen

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Teach children to take control of their own health!

Strategies, activities, and lesson plans for integrating health topics into all areas of the elementary curriculum

Refreshing and innovative, this book offers elementary teachers the specific strategies and resources for integrating vital health topics into science, math, language arts, social studies, and other areas of the curriculum. Especially important in these times of curricula streamlining, Estelle Weinstein and Efrem Rosen’s interdisciplinary approach is valuable to both health educators and elementary school teachers in pre-service and in-service programs—preparing them to develop healthy behaviors in their students from the earliest point of education.

An introductory chapter provides a framework for how health curricula are organized. Each subsequent chapter focuses on a key health topic, for example, the human body and its development, nutrition, chronic and communicable diseases, mental health, sexual health and family life, stress, and other important areas related to children’s health.