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The Health Teacher’s Guide to Summer Reading

This post originally appeared on Choices.Scholastic.com Yay, summer! Hopefully, you’ve got all sorts of plans laid out to help you achieve balance, like playing with your friends and family, taking long breaks, and doing something completely unheard of… like reading

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The Summer School Health Survival Kit

This post originally appeared on Choices.Scholastic.com My first experience as a health teacher was during summer school. I was only 24 years old, at the beginning of my career, and intimidated beyond belief. I was given a stack of worksheets,

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Stress Management for Teens- Unit Plan

This post originally appeared on Choices.Scholastic.com It’s crunch time! Stress management for teens. May is a stressful time to be at school. Younger kids are finishing up projects, older ones are gearing up for finals, and most of us teachers

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Is Health Ed Finally Getting the Attention it Deserves?

This post originally appeared on Choices.Scholastic.com It’s an exciting time to be a health teacher. Governments around the world are calling for curriculum updates, mindfulness is trending, and our country’s growing push for wellness is finally trickling down to the

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Advocacy in Action Project

Hey 8th graders! Here’s your chance to take a stand on an issue you want to advocate for. Do a little research, fill out the sheet, and then figure out how you’re going to inspire your classmates by presenting your

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Food Guidelines Around the World

Hey 7th Graders! Here’s your opportunity to learn about food and dietary guidelines all around the world to help our SAS community come up with food guidelines for our own cafeteria.  Here is the link to the most recent Food Based Guidelines around the world.

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Fun nutrition websites for review!

Hey 6th graders! If you want more resources for learning about nutrition (including fun games!) click on one of the links below. CDC’s BAM!- Body and Mind ChooseMyPlate.gov PBS Kids- It’s My Life KidsHealth.org

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Alcohol & Drug Lab

Hey 8th graders, Here’s the doc with all of the links you’ll need for the alcohol lab. Work at your own pace and in whichever order you choose, just make sure you stay on task, there’s tons to learn about making

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Instructions for the Sleep Video

Hey 7th graders, Great job on your sleep advocacy skits. Now it’s time to take what you learned and put it into action in your own life. You’ll be making a short (around a minute long) video reminding yourself about

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Resources for the Sleep Advocacy Skits

Hey 7th graders! Did you know that 1/3 of all teenagers are sleep deprived? According to the National Sleep Foundation, you need at least 9 hours, and most of you aren’t even clocking in at 7. Why is that? Screen

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Resources for the Goal Setting Project

Hey 7th Graders! The time has come for you to pick a wellness goal for the semester and get into action. Pick something that you’d like to work on – physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially- and draft a plan. Remember

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Advocating for later start times…

“Given that the primary focus of education is to maximize human potential, then a new task before us is to ensure that the conditions in which learning takes place address the very biology of our learners.” Mary A. Carskadon, PhD

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The social and emotional roots of obesity

“It is important to understand that the weight bias that obese youth face is just as serious as the physical consequences of excessive weight on the welfare of the child.”

-CDC: Childhood Obesity, Issues of Weight Bias
 

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